Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

The myth of the thousand updates for Linux, debunked

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

For the last six months, I’ve been reading article after article spewing the same bovine manure: Look at how many updates Distribution X issued! How can it be more secure than Windows? Let’s bury that stupidity under a ton of facts:

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Solving choppy sound and audio stutter in VMware

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

VMware (Workstation or Player) under Linux tends to stutter and produce choppy audio when running a Windows XP virtual machine. Here’s what I did to kill those problems (yes, I can even use Steinberg Nuendo now!):

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Diagnosing a problem on Linux vs. Windows

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Diagnosing and solving a problem on Linux usually consists of googling the error message you get, and applying the fix. Not so with Windows.

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