Two Biggest Downsides of Using Windows XP SP2 on Remote Machines and Their Solutions

May 20th, 2007 Often you need to remotely run utilities on other machines through unattended batch process or cron job. ssh allows you to execute code on remote machine.

October 12th, 2008 Have you ever searched scp manual for ways to append a file using it? scp is an excellent command to rapidly copy files and directories to / from a remote location. Unfortunately it is of no help when you just want to append a file over ssh connection.

December 21st, 2007 SSH is aptly termed as poor man's VPN. You can use it to either forward local host host name and port to a remote server running ssh daemon.

April 10th, 2006 Why did Apple, after all these years, finally decide to support Windows on their machines? It is surely not because they have grown a friendship with Microsoft. As Bootcamp website stated: "More and more people are buying and loving Macs.

September 2nd, 2007 In Linux, unlike Windows, multiple users can simultaneously connect to the same machine and get a full GUI using windows managers like VNC. However when one of the account has Firefox opened, others are prevented from bringing up firefox which can be very much irritating.

May 9th, 2005 Oscarbot(aka Doyorg), an windows only Trojan, continued to spread on Monday among America Online instant messaging clients. It installs backdoor on the infected PC when users click on a link within lines like "hey check out this" or "i thought youd wanna see this" from a buddy on their AIM contact list.

June 3rd, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft said Tuesday that it will debut its new operating system Oct 22 as it seeks to block a growing challenge from Google, Apple, and the open-source Linux operating system. The world's largest software company is releasing Windows 7 just 33 months after launching Windows Vista which has been widely panned for its demanding hardware requirements and slow response time.

May 6th, 2007 Are you a developer or QA engineer, in an all Linux workplace, always looking for scarce Windows machines to run Microsoft Internet Explorer for testing your product and services? You could also be the manager who is eager to switch to Linux but cannot do so because of strong requirement for testing on Internet Explorer. You are in luck.

May 15th, 2007 I faced an extremely weird problem of ghost DNS lookups on machines configured as NFS clients. It took quite an effort to solve it.

March 12th, 2008 Dell in India doesn't offer the range of customizations that you would normally come to expect from them. Moreover calling Dell may have some unintended consequences like possibly a call from Microsoft.

October 15th, 2005 My computer, running Windows 2000, was having garbled display. First the mouse droppings which the refresh wasn't eliminating.

December 7th, 2007 Cross-browser and cross-platform testing is a bane as well as a requirement for web applications. Consider Internet Explorer on Windows.

October 6th, 2007 I am changing my domain registrar of one of my domains from Network Solutions to GoDaddy. Changing domain registrar is definitely a non-trivial process for any non-web-savvy person.

February 17th, 2007 Traditionally companies choose Windows as their desktop environment and often for their intranet servers too. Windows is generally perceived as being easier to use and administer and mostly with good reason.

March 12th, 2008 I just received a mysterious call from Microsoft inquiring about our Windows usage! I was surprised to say the least. Why would a 100% Linux based company get a call from Microsoft? Read on for the juicy details.