Posts by Lopez

Copilot coming to Windows 10 to help navigate the OS's twilight years

Re: Plan to slow Windows 10 - try the other side, its less hassle (mainly)

To reduce mothership traffic in windows 7 / 8 /10 /11.

After every windows update make sure that every instance of diagtrack.dll and compattelrunner.exe are removed.

Also disable and/or delete all the telemetry related scheduled tasks ( there about a dozen of them ).

Low on passengers, low on memory: A bad day on the London Underground

Re: Familiarity

Had Netware 3.12 servers that fell over when the uptime display got to 999 days 23 hours 59 minutes.

Windows XP support ends a year from … now!

Re: Feature removal in newer versions keeps XP going

Pry tell me how you managed to get a Full Screen Dos going in Windows XP, 'cause I never could. At least not on the Command Line Interface any way. How it may have been for actual DOS Programs though? I can not say.

In XP - Open command prompt and hit alt-enter for full screen.

Reality Check

Last week I was working on a customers Windows 2000 servers that will not get replaced in the near future.

Ubuntu? Fedora? Mint? Debian? We'll find you the right Linux to swallow

Preferred Distribution

As I do a lot of Oracle testing, my preference is 64-bit Centos 5

It has always been very reliable.

Running 3 Oracle instances and a couple of VM's has been fine on a machine with 6gb Ram

For testing any Windows setups I use VMware Player

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How to destroy a brand-new Samsung laptop: Boot Linux on it

Might explain why my local co-op is selling a pile of Samsung laptops.

Red Hat hits 10-year, $1bn Enterprise Linux birthday

Congratulations RedHat

Redhat 6.1 on a Pentium 75 seems a long time ago now.

That machine lasted over 10 years as an FTP and print server.

Gates: Novell are sore losers, Word trounced WordPerfect

Around the Windows 3 era, The standard word processor in the company I worked for was Multimate, remember that one ?

If I remember rightly, the DOS version of Wordperfect was used a lot in law firms.

Rogue toilet takes out Norfolk server

ALTER SYSTEM FLUSH SHARED POOL.