The Portable Ubuntu Remix or pubuntu project allows Linux to run INSIDE Windows as a native win32 application. This is not the same as running Linux within a VMWare or Virtual Machine environment. Recent versions have become much more stable, to the point that it’s now possible to even run Gnome (a typical Linux GUI [...]

One of Microsoft Word’s most annoying problems is weird bugs that have never been fixed. I’m sure Microsoft has an explanation for this that sounds perfectly fine, but it’s one of those things that is annoying to anybody who lives in the real world. It’s doubly annoying when non-computer literate users see it and get [...]

Thunderbird RSS Feed Fix I love Thunderbird for reading emails, and keeping track of my RSS feeds. But for some reason RSS tends to become corrupted. I don’t believe it’s necessarily Thunderbird’s fault, although it seems a bit pickier about feeds that are correctly crafted then other RSS readers. A clue that there is a [...]

An IP address is a number that identifies devices connected to a network. In short every single computer, mobile phone, printer, server, etc, connected to the Internet is assigned a unique address. Note that this is totally different then a MAC address which is unique and is only assigned to one device. IP address can [...]

Both Twitter and Facebook are facing Denial of Service (or Dos) attacks today. Twitter ended up going completely down, Facebook was able to weather the storm, although it was still a bit pokey at times. What is funny about this is how all the pundits say “their growth caused them to fail to anticipate this [...]