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Uninstalling Managed Symantec Antivirus Client With Forgotten Password

Submitted by Art on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 12:27

This week at my job, I had a problem with uninstalling Symantec's antivirus. Not a big deal, you say? That's what I thought too, but it turned out to be a major hassle.

A hassle with what turned out to be a simple answer.

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Installing Windows 7 Beta in Sun's VirtualBox

Submitted by Art on Sun, 01/11/2009 - 05:01

Update 1/16/09: Wow! We've gotten an overwhelming response to this post and it has quickly become our most popular ever. Thanks to all!

But in particular I'd like to thank a few web sites that have linked to this article:

http://www.version2.dk/artikel/9596-med-windows-7-i-sandkassen

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What day is today?

Submitted by Art on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 00:19

I may be a few days late with this post, but I think I’ll do it anyway.

With a new year comes new calendars, and here are a bunch of resources to find the one to fit your needs:

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Don't scream at your hard drives...

Submitted by Art on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 12:15

…you might frighten them.

 

 

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Burbank businessman hits eject button on VHS format.

Submitted by Art on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 23:39

If you’re still an owner of a VCR (Remember those?), you may soon find it difficult to find anything new to play on it.

The last movie to be released on VHS was “A History of Violence” back in 2006, but you’ve been able to find older movies on the ancient format in places like dollar stores and your local grocery for a few dollars.

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Windows XP lives a little longer.

Submitted by Art on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 10:59

Looks like Microsoft decided to extend the lifetime of everyone’s favorite operating system, Windows XP, to May 30, 2009. The death of XP was originally slated for the end of January, but due to the popularity of Microsoft’s hard-to-kill operating system and the slow adoption rate of Vista, they decided to extend it a few months longer.

Is anyone really surprised by this? How many of you out there are still using XP? If you are, do you plan to go to Vista any time soon?

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No more Abit mobos after this year.

Submitted by Art on Sun, 12/21/2008 - 23:42

Looks like Abit's parent company, Universal Scientific Industrial (I love that name!), is shutting Abit's doors on December 31 due to a reorginazation of the company. At first they were just going to get out of the mobo business and focus on consumer electronics, but the decision was made to give the company the axe altogether.

 

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Last release of Firefox 2 today.

Submitted by Art on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 18:04

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That’s right. We mentioned on a recent Two Guys Tech podcast that the last release of FF2 was coming, and it happened when 2.0.0.20 was released earlier today.

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Happy birthday to the mouse!

Submitted by Art on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 13:19

Wow, I don’t know how we missed it in our computer history segment for the week’s podcast (to be released tomorrow), but today is the 40th birthday of the computer mouse.

So, let’s all give a toast to the computer mouse!

Hear hear!

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The Machine That Changed the World

Submitted by Art on Sun, 11/02/2008 - 19:13

Ran across a little gem today.

I found all five parts of The Machine That Changed World. It’s a five part PBS series, first aired back in 1992, all about the history of computing from Charles Babbage’s difference engine, the ENIAC, UNIVAC, the rise of IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, and on up to the early dial-up BBS’s and the internet.

It was fun to see a more expanded history of some of the things we talk about here in the computer history segment of the TGT podcast.

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