July 23rd, 2008 20:31
If you happen to be in a situation, at work for example, where MSWord 2007 is forced upon you, you might want to join your local Microsoft abuse self-help group, or just refer to this article: benchmarking MS Word from 95 to 2007.
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July 7th, 2008 21:50
I have these linux habits which are hard to control and recently I discovered a new one while working on my windows box at work.
You know you’re a
- linux fan when you type ‘ls’ every time you mean ‘dir’
- KDE/KWin fan when you try moving/resizing windows with the alt+mouse buttons
and now, here it comes..
- openSUSE fan when you type ‘net suse’ instead of ‘net use’
I needed 3 tries before I got it right!
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July 7th, 2008 21:50
By default, on a 4GB 32-bit system, windows only gives 2GB to the application. To increase the amount of total user virtual address space, edit your boot.ini and include the /3GB option. With the /USERVA you can tweak the amount between 2 and 3 gigabyte. So you can not allocate more than 3GB for applications.
Furthermore, you must relink your application with the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE option to make use of this ‘4GT’ feature. You can also modify an existing binary by using editbin.
source: MSDN
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June 12th, 2008 14:02
Yes, finally I will be able to use the latest flash player again in Opera on linux. 
For me personally, the highlights in this release are:
- Support for latest flashplayer
- Even faster
- Revamped mail backend. Might wanna reevaluate the newsfeed fetching performance. (It had become unacceptable with 50+ feeds)
- Builtin bookmark syncing
- HTML 5 support
- Dragonfly: web dev tools
Read the full changelog here.
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June 12th, 2008 0:34
first thing one does, when getting stuck on a problem with openSUSE is google it up. If nothing turns up, check the bugtracker. No luck? Check the fora. Yes, this is where the pain starts. Until recently, there were, like, 3 fora or something where you had to look up and create an account if you wanted to add a remark, ask a question. They finally combined forces and merged them all and made them even official! That’s great news I believe. Having a single point of access for support questions is really important, even more for early adopters. With openSUSE 11 right around the corner, the timing couldn’t have been any better!
of course, you can always join the #suse IRC channel on freenode if you’re a more chattive type of person
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