Tag Archive | "Windows"

Using MoveFile on Windows for Unmovable Files

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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Grant Gochnauer sent in a handy tip on using the MoveFile utility on Windows to schedule locked files to be moved at the next system startup. I’m sharing this here so the next time you get some pesky spyware or virus on your machine, you have 1-more way to combat it.

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Global, Mac-like Menubar on GNOME with gnome2-globalmenu

Monday, February 16, 2009

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Caught the introduction of this story over on OS News — apparently folks have been voting on the addition of a global, application-context sensitive menubar in Gnome for a while. The design of the bar is very similar to the way the global bar in Mac works. For those that don’t know, there is a [...]

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PC Hardware Virtualization Basics

Monday, August 11, 2008

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With single core processors reaching their peak potential, and the latest quad core processors either on the market or a short distance off (dual 4-core Penryn), we are left to wonder how consumer computing will change beyond editing Word documents and playing 3D photo-realistic games. Enter virtualization. Virtualization refers to virtualizing hardware in software, allowing [...]

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