Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software

It may be the year 2008, but a whole lot of sucktacular software still rears its ugly head on PC's everywhere, even when better-behaved options are freely available. Whether it's molasses-slow bloatware, shameless adware, anemic default apps, or "trial period expired!" nagware, it's time to replace stinky Win software with its superior alternatives

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Whats New Now - WNN

Weekly or Bi Weekly web clip of hot topics around the world.

Whats New Now

This weeks topics: "Apple Updates iMac, Grand Theft Auto IV hits stores, Nokia's "Beautiful to use" Phones, Google's VisualRank and Falcon Northwest's Fragbox 8500 "

1337! 5 Killer PC Games playable on Ubuntu: Hardy Heron

Is hell officially freezing over? Can it be that its actually being easy to game on Linux?! Here are 5 PC games that you can EASILY play on the upcoming Ubuntu release: Hardy Heron. Links to some valuable Ubuntu gaming resources are given at the end.

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Ultra-Long-Endurance Aircraft to Stay Aloft for Years

Boeing has unveiled concept art for an ultra-long-endurance aircraft that could stay aloft in the stratosphere for several years. Boeing has received a $3.8m (£2m) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) contract for Phase 1 of the Vulture programme.

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10 Tips for After You Install or Upgrade Ubuntu

10 great, simple, and easy to follow tips with instructions for new and old Ubuntu users!

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Microsoft releases the long-anticipated Windows XP SP3

Microsoft has officially announced the availability of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. The languages are now available via the Microsoft Download Center and Windows Update.

Wonder what issues we are gonna have this go round? Odd that Windows XP is no longer going to be sold under its own name but rather Vista after June yet in May that release a final Service Pack. Wouldnt it be ironic if they added a peice of software that made you upgrade in XX amount of months to Vista LMAO!

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Excel Merge

Formula: =""&E4&", "&LEFT(D4,3)

Merges Row D and E to Choosen Row.

http://www.mrexcel.com/tip023.shtml

SharePoint KB articles

"Service Unavailable" error message when you browse a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Web site

Using Shared Networking (NAT) with a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine

"Virtual PC has a convenient feature called 'Shared Networking'. What this is is a small virtual NAT (network address translation) router - which is quite similar to the cheap hardware broadband routers that a lot of people use (myself included). The advantage of Shared Networking is that your virtual machine can access the external network with needing to be directly connected to it*. This is handy if you don't want to have to worry about whether your virtual machine has all the latest security patches, or if you regularly move your physical machine between different network configurations (e.g. moving a laptop from you work network to your home network).

Normally using Shared Networking is very simple. You just enable it and set the guest operating system to use DHCP - and everything works. This is not the case with a Windows Server 2003 guest though. The problem is that Shared Networking configures the guest operating system to use the same DNS servers as are used by the physical computer. However - all DNS packets are actually returned from '192.168.131.254' - which is the virtual gateway used by Shared Networking.

Windows Server 2003 looks at the DNS packet, sees that it is coming from a source other than the DNS server it requested the information from, and rejects it. A simple fix for this is to manually assign the DNS server inside the virtual machine to 192.168.131.254 - then everything will work just fine.

Cheers,
Ben"

Quoted from: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/01/06/347965.aspx

Thanks Ben for the great write up!