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Just when everyone thought that all hope was lost when it comes to performing a clean install with a Windows Vista Upgrade DVD, a gleam of light can now be seen at the end of the tunnel. A new workaround proposed by Paul Thurrott (via Microsoft internal documents) has been confirmed to work by DailyTech.

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Since the early 1980s, corporate computing power has shifted away from the big central computers that were hooked to “dumb terminals” on employees’ desks and toward increasingly powerful desktop and laptop computers. Now, there are signs the tide is turning back.

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So, you’re not quite ready to spring for a copy of Vista, or maybe your system can’t handle it, or perhaps you’re running Mac OS or (gasp) Linux. Why should you be left out of those three months of free T-Mobile WiFi just because you don’t kowtow to The Man? Never fear, it turns out it isn’t all that hard to get tricksy on those T-Mobile Hotspots, since they’re only verifying your OS based on the user agent string your browser spits out. Luckily for you, a simple bit of googling will quickly reveal methods for swapping the user agent on most major browsers, and once you enter the string “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)” you should be all good to go. Then all you’ll need to do is train your browser to hotspot.t-mobile.com/vista/ and start browsing those internets. Tell ‘em Engadget sent ya’, they’ll understand.

Coding or designing a page, it’s always nice to have some basic templates you can quickly modify or adapt to your needs. However, at least once you have to know, how to create this “universal” template. In this case tutorials prove to be an ultimate solution, particularly if you just want to get an idea how something works and where to start from. In fact, you don’t have to re-invent the wheel all the time - you can use existing solutions, modify and improve them and publish them as well - just the way other people did it for you.

Link here.

Openfiler is a Storage Management Operating System. It is powered by the Linux 2.6 kernel and Open Source applications such as Apache, Samba, LVM2, ext3, Linux NFS and iSCSI Enterprise Target. Openfiler combines these ubiquitous technologies into a small, easy to manage solution fronted by a powerful web-based management interface. Openfiler allows you to build a Network Attached Storage (NAS) and/or Storage Area Network (SAN) appliance, using industry-standard hardware, in less than 10 minutes of installation time.

www.openfiler.com/

FreeNAS is a small, powerful, full-featured implementation of FreeBSD as a network-attached storage device. (It also happens to be January’s Project of the Month at SourceForge.net.) If you’re a Linux user like me, the BSD-speak used for devices and such might give you pause, but other than that small caveat, installation and usage shouldn’t be a problem. It’s powerful enough to be used in the enterprise, but it’s friendly enough so that even a typical home office user can take advantage of it. Here’s how I created an easy-to-use NAS device for rsync backups and FTP server on my LAN.

servers.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/1514204

Many of us have a dual-boot setup, but it gets annoying to reboot between Windows and Linux. With this guide, you can run your existing Windows partition on VMware Player in Linux, all for free!

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Back in December of 2005, I was filling in for Darren Rowse at ProBlogger and I wrote an entry that was very highly read and commented on. The topic was 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.0. The occasion was the release of the much-waited for release of the current major release of WordPress (We’re up to 2.0.7 but the “dot releases” have all been security/bugfix releases).

www.technosailor.com/10-things-you-should-know-about-wordpress-21/

Need to look up a phone number on your home computer from the office? Or control the headless media server you set up at your buddy’s place across town? Or help Mom figure out how to use Flickr? You already know that Virtual Network Computing (VNC) remote controls computers over the internet. But VNC is not a secure protocol - and it won’t work if the remote machine is behind a firewall you don’t control.

lifehacker.com/software/vnc/geek-to-live–secure-vnc-with-hamachi-228862.php

This page is huge. Everything you can imagine form FF plugins to Ruby. This page has it all.

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