90 Days of Vista – Day 20

A Few Annoying Bugs Why must FTP support always be crappy? No matter what version of Windows I use, whenever I put an FTP address into Explorer, in the username:password@hostname.tld/public_html/site/this/that/etc it always crashes the first time. That’s right. Even in Vista, it crashes the first time, and then when I try it the second time […]

90 Days of Vista – Initial Caveats

Your Graphics Card Sucks I know that there are plenty of people out there that will vouch against what I am about to say, so if you are one of those, feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments. While running Windows XP Professional, my graphics card performed as a Radeon 9800 Pro (I […]

VMWare Server on CentOS 5

News Flash! -:- Newer Version of This Guide based on CentOS 5.3 (32/64bit) and VMware Server 1.0.9 Available Here So you just installed CentOS 5, as your host operating system for the latest version of VMware Server, 1.0.3. However, vmware-config.pl tells you it is missing something. libXtst.so.6 What is libXtst.so.6? Well, to keep a long […]

90 Days of Vista – The Beginning

Natural Selection Which flavour of Windows Vista do you choose? With a Microsoft Technet Subscription at my fingertips, I could install any version I like, but not everyone has this advantage. Most will end up with Windows Vista Home Basic. Pirates will probably have Enterprise, before they realise what they actually wanted was Ultimate, those […]