So, Vista’s been out for a while now - some people think it’s great (usually they are selling it), some think that it’s pants.
Now, I’m not far from the front of the queue when it comes to raving about Linux. Ubuntu was the second Linux distro that I have tried, and I’ve stuck with it quite [...]

I’ve had a problem lately whereby various roaming profiles have the Computer window appear when users log into Windows Vista.
I messed around with a load of settings to try and work out what it was – I thought that as the problem only manifests itself in Vista with the new profiles, maybe it’s mis-interpreting a [...]

One of the tricky things about managing Favourites for users on a network is that it’s a nightmare to easily deal with the varied requirements of users.
Generally, you would set up favourites on a Windows network to do one of the following:

Leave them as they are. Users can add and remove their own favourite websites
Redirect [...]

The education sector has by far the most potential to steer and promote the direction of open-source than anything else in the UK. So why has Becta waited a year to whinge about Office and Vista instead of doing what it’s there to do – lead?

I was playing around with Wine the other day. It’s pretty cool that I can run Dreamweaver and Fireworks on Ubuntu with very few issues now.
One of the problems I did encounter was that the setup program for Dreamweaver wouldn’t run under wine, and the program files had to be copied across to my Linux [...]

After recently installing a bunch of Shuttle SK22G2 systems in a site with Windows Vista loaded, it became clear that there were some minor issues with the systems shutting down. (Hint: They didn’t)
There was an intermittent fault that made them hang on the last phase of shutting down. Frustratingly, there was no evidence to show [...]