Fedora 10 Released

ars technica has a great review on the newest release of the Fedora Project, version 10.
I’m downloading it as I type, can’t wait to give it a try. Get it here.

DSL

No not the Internet service, it’s Damn Small Linux. Linux you can run from a thumb drive, even a zip drive and it easily runs from with Windows, no virtual machine needed.
Give it a try and have fun; as always it’s Open Source and free.

How to Forge

Here’s a great site I found through a Digg post. HowtoForge has a truckload of tutorials for the most popular flavors of Linux, even FreeBSD. I use this site to polish my little-used Linux skills and highly recommend it for training or helping with a project. They have screenshots, sources and references plus a fairly healthy forum.
Viva [...]

Script Headers

Okay, so you wrote a really cool batch script. Now what information do you put at the top?
After writing many, many batch scripts with really nothing but the filename and modified date as “information” I looked around a bit and put together this from what I saw.
rem **********************************
rem * Desktop System setup script
rem * Author: [...]

Holy Skydrive!

Thanks to Bink.nu for this post. Microsoft’s free Skydrive, part of the Live.com suite of web products, now allows you to upload 25GB of data! That’s an amazing amount of storage for free. Hmmm, how many pirated Metallica songs would that hold?
More from the source: Skydrive Team Blog

New Xbox 360 Experience

Engadget has a great review of the new Xbox 360 update. Check it out here.

Active@ UNDELETE

This comes from a friend of mine who lost a couple hundred pictures of his family and friends the day after Halloween. Not sure if it was a glitch with the camera or operator error, but his wife was not happy.
This is when he found Active Undelete, using this he recovered all the pictures and was the hero.
It works [...]

Windows XP SP3 Causes Windows Update to Fail

I’ve had this happen on a number of systems now, where installing Windows XP SP3 will cause Windows/Microsoft/Automatic Update to fail.
Thanks to Ron Crumbaker, a simple fix is all that is needed. The steps are listed below, the actual commands are in bold.
1. Stop Automatic Updates service – net stop wuauserv
2. Register wups2.dll – regsvr32 [...]

Windows 7

Some people think it’s too soon for Windows 7, if that’s what they’re really going to call it. But having been released to manufacturing in November of 2006, it’ll be almost three years by the time Windows 7 is relased (and that’s if it’s on time).
Looking at Apple’s OS X delivery model, not to mention [...]

Recalling Batteries Still… Seriously?

ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes posted another chapter in the continuing saga of the Sony battery recall. Seriously, how long will it take to get over this?