Archive for August 6th, 2007
Kernel panic
I’ve written before about how, according to Apple, reason number 1 to get a Mac is because “all the hardware and software just works, and works well together“. I can’t be bothered to get into the whole Mac vs. [Windows] PC (vs. Linux) thing now… I’ve written plenty on that subject before, and anyway [...]
Posted: August 6th, 2007 under OS X.
Comments: 3
Tab completion in Windows
Many people will be familiar with the command line tab completion functionality that can be used to complete folder and filenames in recent versions of Windows, but what I wasn’t aware of (until I just used it, following some instructions from Microsoft in a hands-on lab training manual) was that wildcards like *.reg <tab> can [...]
Posted: August 6th, 2007 under Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
Comments: none
Useful digital photography utilities
I’ve just got back from a weekend in the Peak District National Park and, rewarded with clear blue skies as dawn broke yesterday morning, I rushed to the top of Mam Tor to rekindle my long-dormant desire to make great landscape photographs (I’m no Joe Cornish, but there has to be some reward for leaving [...]
Posted: August 6th, 2007 under Digital photography, OS X, Photoshop, Useful software.
Comments: 6
Virtualised demonstrations eating all your memory? Try a ReadyBoost USB key
Even though Windows Vista will run on lower-specification PCs (it’s fine on my ThinkPad T40 with 512MB RAM), once you add a few applications (like Office 2007), it really starts to bog down and I was struggling recently with 1GB RAM on my work notebook (it’s been fine since I added another gig). If you [...]
Posted: August 6th, 2007 under Office, PC hardware, Virtualisation, Windows Vista.
Comments: 2
