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It annoyed me for ages that you cannot just double-click on an URL in Putty to open that URL in your browser. Even selecting an URL for copy...

I have to admit, I did not know about that: The  shell:  command can be used to open a special folder directly from the Start, Search me...

With DB2 on my home PC[1] I have a service account for the DB2 instance, makes life a lot easier than trying to map it to you actual user(s...

While I finally made it to a Mac (MacBook Air 13) at work, I gave in and let Microsoft install Windows 10 over my Windows 7 on my home PC. ...

A couple of weeks ago, Dropbox (my favourite cloud storage or rather information sharing tool) started to support putting  Screenshots dire...

No worries,  this is only about my home PC. I finally moved off my 8.5 year old 1.2GHz [1] single core 1GB RAM Windows XP machine to 4cor...

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Just installed the newly released VirtualBox 3.02 today, and my (guest) XP started to crash after I de-installed the "old" (2.2.x...

I guess this was the third time I fell into this trap, so I document it here (mainly for myself): As long as you have any kind of LAN type i...

Just installed the latest OpenOffice.org 3.0 build over the previous one, and all the Windows Explorer integration was lost. I googled aroun...

Microsoft Windows and Sun x64 Servers and Workstations : "Sun and Microsoft Expand Strategic Alliance Sun and Microsoft have announced ...

Right from the office of Excel and Microsoft defender #1 Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve - Joel on Software : "I've b...

Thanks to Gernot for suggesting this great tool the other day . Ninotech Path Copy What it does is soo simple but it really helps. I've...

Yet another windows customization reminder: Since I frequently have to open a command prompt right from the folder that I'm on in explor...

And while I'm in the "knowledge preservation" mode - this is some piece of information I was look for years (well, not constan...

Dell signs on with Microsoft, Novell : Dell Inc. has agreed to work with Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. under an alliance the rival softwar...

There's a nice article on how Java runs on Vista at the .NET Developers Journal (of all ;-) ). Java Software on Vista — People have been...