Archive for March, 2005

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Linux Advice Wanted

Ian Hamet is looking for advice on moving to Linux, as he is overwhelmed by the sheer number of distributions and options available. He lists the things he is most considering, but would love feedback in the comments.

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Saturday, March 26th, 2005

Blogs @ HP

HP now has in-house blogs. Always an interesting thing to see a major company opening up the communication lines that way.

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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

Switching to Linux

Paul Burgess has an excellent page up on switching completely to Linux, which he believes is ready for prime time for your basic home user.

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Monday, March 7th, 2005

Carnival of Capitalists for March 7

The March 7 Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Blogcritics, for your business and economics reading pleasure. Plus some about blogging, and particularly blogging for business.

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Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

XP SP2 Office 97 Setup Failure and Registry Adventures

I recently had to setup Office 97 on a Windows XP machine that came with the dreaded SP2, making it impossible to avoid. Before setup could complete, it gave an error registering htmlmarq.ocx and ended, saying setup did not complete successfully. Yet Word would run, it seemed. You can’t always trust overt impressions. When a [...]

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