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From Vista to Xp

As some of you may know I recently went from windows xp to vista. Well after a few weeks I went back to xp. It isn’t that vista is “bad” it had more to do with applications and drivers.
First let me start off with drivers. Vista ran fine without upgrading drivers, well [...]

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To Vista Or Not To Vista

As you may have read the video card in my computer died.  Now I am using a GeForce 8600GT which has support for DX10.  Ok well with only 32 stream processors it probably isnt that great at DX10 but whatever.  I currently have vista running on a seperate partition and it suprisingly runs fine.  Though [...]

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Firefox 3 Should be out Today

Today is the big Firefox 3 launch and the chance to break a world record.  But Firefox 3 is not out yet!  Hopefully it will be released soon so the record breaking can begin.  Keep checking spreadfirefox and the Mozilla website to find out when it is actually released.  It seems like their servers are [...]

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Firefox 3 RC3 Released

Firefox just notified me that RC 3 is available.  I have no idea what the changes are at the moment, but I presume they are just bug fixes.  Anyway I am off to a graduation ceremony.

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Firefox 3 Release Date Announced

June 17th is the day Firefox 3 will be released.  You can find the post on the Mozilla Developer Center.  I have been running Firefox 3 since beta and it is an awesome browser, faster too.  I would highly suggest updating to it because of the increased security and javascript performance.  You may want to [...]

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Setting Up A Development Web Server

A project I will be starting soon will require me to have a local webserver running.  Well I don’t need a local one but it will be A LOT easier with a local webserver.  You may have seen my article on how to enable PHP5 in the version of Apache that comes with OSX.  This [...]

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Firefox 3 RC 2

Woh, I just found out about this a few minutes ago (haven’t been on my mac all day). You can check out the release notes and get a download link at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0rc2/releasenotes/

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Windows XP SP3 Officially Released

I have posted so much news today, thats pretty crazy.  Anyway a friend let me know that Microsoft officially released SP3 for XP.  After running Windows Update, I did custom by the way, and installing a new version of Genuine Advantage, Service Pack 3 shows up.  It is only a 66.9MB download from windows update.  [...]

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VirtualBox 1.6

The latest version of VirtualBox was released on May 2nd. I have been pretty busy this weekend so I just found out about it 15 minutes ago. This post is actually being written in Windows Server 2003 running in VirtualBox 1.6. There are tons of new features and fixes. You can [...]

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Windows Server 2003 in Virtual Box on a Mac

Yesterday I installed Virtual Box on my mac.  After getting all the windows updates installed and the guest os drivers from virtual box it is running very well.  I even went far enough to set up IIS w/ PHP 5.2.5 via FastCGI.  I was even able to set up Virtual Box to listen for requests [...]

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