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Another useful Windows Trick

Posted by ehuntley on August 28th, 2008 filed in Programming/Development, Technology

Have you ever had an application that somehow corrupted during install, update or removal? Would you get that stupid “Windows Installer” dialog box popping up every time you booted up your machine or attempted to complete a certain task? What makes it worse is that it fails each time and there’s seemingly no way to [...]

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Quirks - Editing Your “hosts” File in Vista

Posted by ehuntley on July 12th, 2008 filed in Programming/Development, Technology, Uncategorized

I thought I would post this little snippet of information because it helped me.
If you’re looking to modify your ‘hosts’ file in Windows Vista, you won’t be able to by default. If you happen to come by it, Windows will say that the file doesn’t exist (or a similar message) when you try to save [...]

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SplashTop

Posted by ehuntley on May 14th, 2008 filed in Technology

This is very interesting:
A company named DeviceVM has created an instant-on, embedded version of Linux for certain Asus motherboards. What this means is that when you boot your machine you have the option of running a small, purpose built Linux OS called SplashTop instead of your traditional operating system. SplashTop is very basic in that [...]

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