The long anticipated Consumer Preview (beta) build of Windows 8 has finally been released by Microsoft. So far I am enjoying this new OS. It’s quick fun and best of all “new”. According to Microsoft, the next milestone will be the Release Candidate and after that will be the Release to Manufacturing (RTM), and general […]
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Invite your friends to Dropbox!
Hi all, I just wanted to ask you to please help me increase my free online storage space. For every friend who joins and installs Dropbox, I’ll get we both get 250 MB of bonus space (up to a limit of 8 GB)! If you don’t have an account, now is a good time to […]
In a previous post I went over using Virtual Box because I was unable to run Windows 8 (* preview) in a VMware Player and it required me to have Workstation 8. Well my wait is over and now the latest version of VMware player will run Win8. Oh happy day… About:VMware Player With […]
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Disk usage in Windows
Windows does not have any in-built command(Like the Linux command du) which show the disk usage statistics for a directory. However, there’s a downloadable tools from SysInternals(now part of Microsoft) which can show us the disk usage numbers. Du.exe version 1.4 can be downloaded from the below link. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896651 Find the disk usage of a directory […]
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Windows 8 & Sun VirtualBox
While I wait for Windows 8 I look for ways to run this in a virtual machine on my workstations. I have been successful in running Windows 8 on ESXi and VMware Workstation 8 I had no luck with using the free product VMware Player 4.X. VMware Player was updated and now supports the […]
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Jackson Pollock
Today my son AJ does some artwork on the computer that would have made the painter Jackson Pollock very proud. Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his […]