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Internet Lessons for Journalists Part 3

December 9, 2009 News

Welcome to the the third part in our exclusive lessons for journalists, where we explain how the Internet works. Moving on from last week’s “Why You Should Research further than Wikipedia” this week we are covering another vital lesson! I have noticed more and more in various newspapers headlines along the following lines: Dancing Gimp [...]

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Virtual PC Epilogue

October 27, 2009 News

Further to my previous posts I had problems with upgrading from Virtual PC 2007 to the Windows 7 version of VPC. Although most of my existing VMs worked without issue one of them refused to load with a compatability error. I had problems with others not wanting to load as they were in a “saved” [...]

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Upgrading Virtual PC 2007 Virtual Machines to Windows 7 Virtual PC

October 22, 2009 News

I do a lot of my development in virtualised environments. If you aren’t familiar with virtual machines then I strongly recommend investigating further. There are many advantages to working in this way. An extra level of security. Whilst it is possible for nasties to traverse the host/guest operating system barrier, unsophisticated Trojans and viruses will [...]

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Retail Windows 7 Installation Problems

October 21, 2009 News

Here are two things that I learnt during my installation of Win 7 this evening, I share them here in case they might be useful to someone else… If you are experiencing a very slow Windows 7 install, then try disabling your floppy drive in the BIOS. I switched mine to “none”. I then gave [...]

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XP to Windows 7: What should I back up?

October 21, 2009 News

Yay, my copy of Windows 7 dodged the UK postal strikes and made it to my desk. I’m now eagre to get the install under way. There is no option to upgrade from XP so I’m going to have to do a complete Windows reinstall, which is fine by me as my PC needs a [...]

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