Category Archives: Windows

VMware, 64-bit processors, and Virtualisation Technology

4 April, 2008 – 1:22 am

Attempts to set up a 64-bit guest operating system using VMware workstation on a 64-bit Intel processor machine running Windows 2003 R2 Standard 64-bit Edition failed miserably this past week at work. As Chaz6 and larstr subsequently pointed out in #vmware on irc.freenode.net, the particular Intel processor in the machine being used does not [...]

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Telling Vim not to create swap and backup files.

31 March, 2008 – 9:34 pm

It should come as no surprise to those who know me that I rely on Vim almost nearly always for any sort of text editing tasks. If you have used Vim before with little more than passing curiosity, you will have noticed and been annoyed by the swap file Vim creates when opening a [...]

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Dual-Head: Sharing laptop’s desktop with external LCD.

8 January, 2008 – 10:33 am

I bought a second-hand 17″ HP LCD from a college friend. I got it to use with my headless Dell desktop box, but since it runs Slackware and I work with it remotely, I have the LCD now attached to the laptop as an extended display. Luckily, the ATI Radeon card on the [...]

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Symbian SDK and Carbide.c++ on Windows Vista (glitches)

11 December, 2007 – 11:17 am

(I sincerely hope that writing about Windows does not in the least harm my overly popular reputation of being a Windows-Hater and Linux evangelist.)
You will likely run into a few glitches trying to get Carbide.c++ and Symbian SDK to run on Windows Vista. The core of the problem causing the glitches I will touch [...]

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