From the monthly archives:

December 2006

VMWare releases Vista compatible beta

December 30, 2006

Vista has been able to run within VMWare for quite some time now. We have been waiting for a version that will allow us to do it the other way around – run VMWare within Vista. Our wish has been granted, and VMWare Beta 6 was released today. Here is a list of the new [...]

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Pre-Register for Longhorn Beta 3

December 26, 2006

Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing Beta 3 of Windows Longhorn in the first half of 2007. It will be feature-complete, and the first public beta of the server operating system. To get notification of the beta release, simply sign up at Microsoft’s website Hint: Look for this text on the bottom right: [...]

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Commodore 64 Commercials

December 24, 2006
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Microsoft releases requirements for Vista machines

December 20, 2006

Microsoft has published the requirements for Vista capable machines. According to Microsoft, a Vista capable machine must have at least: -800 MHZ Processor-512 MB of RAM-A graphics card that is DirectX 9 compatible-20 GB of hard drive space These are absolute minimum requirements, and our testing here shows that to be productive in any way [...]

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Nec to sell waterproof laptop

December 20, 2006

Yep. You read it right. NEC is working on a waterproof laptop that can withstand 20 degree weather, water, and drops from a foot off the ground. Our terrible translation from the NEC (Japanese) website NEC on the 5th, is strong in impact, prevents the penetration of the water, withstands also the cold of 20 [...]

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Vista Limitation – Multi Monitor Displays

December 20, 2006

The Multimonitor support in windows is great. It is perfect for development – one screen for debugging, the other for the application. Better yet it is nice to have one monitor for television in Media Center, and the other for work. Multiple monitor support has been there since Windows 2000, but Microsoft added some really [...]

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Remove the software keyboard from Windows XP Tablet edition

December 19, 2006

I have the latest version of XP Tablet edition. The thing is…I never use the software keyboard that pops up on login. I only switch to use my pen when I want to scratch out an idea, or write a journal entry. I never use it while logging in so there is no need for [...]

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Turn numlock on at startup

December 18, 2006

Applications that are number intensive – such as Excel, Financial, or Banking software make heavy use of the numeric keypad. When you are crunching numbers you need to eek every bit of performance out of the computer that you can. I find that number crunchers have the numlock key on 24/7 – and they get [...]

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Clear recent documents list on logoff

December 15, 2006

Many times when using windows, your recent documents list gets loaded up with documents you don’t want people to see: You can tell windows to clear it every time you logoff. You will need to fire up regedit and browse to this key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Add a dword value named ClearRecentDocsOnExit and set it to 1 [...]

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How to change the password reminder

December 13, 2006

A Windows 2003 domain controller comes out of the box with numerous default settings. The 15 day password reminder is one of them, and can be really annoying. Who wants to spend the next two weeks clicking NO every time they login? Group policy can be used to change this to a more reasonable setting. [...]

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