Windows XP back by popular demand at Tech Without Wires

windows Vista has been on sale to the general populations around the world since January. Like many other retailers, Dell began offering its hardware with Vista pre-installed. On Dell's Idea Storm site where visitors can post suggestions for the company and vote on the suggestions that are important, suggestions and votes are going strong requesting Dell to pre-install Windows XP instead of Windows Vista, or even one of the top [...] Read More


Change Operating Systems and Void Warranty at Tech Without Wires

Have you been tempted to change the operating system on your PC or Laptop? Did your computer or laptop come with windows of some flavour and you changed it to a Linux distribution? Chances are that if you have changed operating systems that you have indeed voided your warranty. If you think that is odd wait until you read the article "PC World refuse to repair hardware fault, because of Linux". [...] Read More


Dutch Consumer Association Declares War on Windows Vista at Tech Without Wires

I have been highlighting on this blog the fact that Windows Vista is really not ready for widespread use. I have even had a new laptop running Windows Vista not able to run all services on the laptop. A Dutch Consumer Association has declared war on Windows Vista since Microsoft refused to supply the consumer association members with a copy of Windows XP if Windows Vista could not run the member's [...] Read More


Sharing swap partitions between Linux and Windows at HackITLinux

Format the partition as a dos partition, and create the Windows swap file on it, but don't run windows yet. (You want to keep the swap file completely empty for now, so that it compresses well). Boot linux and save the partition into a file. For example if the partition was /dev/hda8: dd if=/dev/hda8 of=/etc/dosswap Compress the dosswap file; since it is virtually all 0's it will compress very well gzip [...] Read More


Id's Carmack not sold on Windows Vista? at PCGamers Blog

A report over at IGN states that ID's John Carmack (Doom) isnt jumping on the Vista (and for that matter, DirectX 10's) bandwagon anytime soon. "There's no massive pull for me for DX10," Carmack told Game Informer. "[Enemy Territories:] Quake Wars is definitely not DX10." Carmack added that he felt a move to Vista is unnecessary at this time. "There were some clear wins going from Windows 95 to Windows XP [...] Read More