Want a free Windows Product key? Any major OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) is paying for it. Well, not really, but this is an interesting trick, although I’m not sure just how legal or illegal it is. Disclaimer: THIS IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL. Don’t blame me if you get in trouble. Many “brick and mortar” computer stores have [...]
Just days after an IE6 Zero-day security flaw allowed Google to get hacked in China, there are reports on the internet that there is a new security flaw in all 32 bit versions of Windows. That’s scary. More here: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-01/0346.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/19/microsoft_escalation_bug/
I saw this post on Cnet.com which details an “easter egg” in Windows 7 called God Mode. I emailed it to some friends and one of them Avrohom Eliezer Friedman (name used with permission) wrote back: what you get is just the Windows 7 Control Panel in a different (expanded) layout – it doesn’t contain any [...]
Without going into details, I’m going to go into price comparison between an Apple Computer, a Dell computer and an HP Computer, all laptops. All three machines have integrated graphics and similar processors, hard drives and batteries. Consider a 15″ MacBook Pro from Apple. It’s a nice computer, with a hefty price tag. For the sake [...]
A few months ago, a friend of mine had a problem with his laptop. It refused to start. The machine was a Compaq, running Windows XP on a Pentium 4 processor. He was using a video editing program when his computer froze. He did a hard shutdown and when he tried to restart, he got [...]