ClamWin Clobbered Me; Trying Out Antivir

My home machine has been running Vista 64-bit for a couple months now. Initially I didn’t bother to install an antivirus program, but since I have profiles for kids and visitors I decided I’d better add something to cover me when those folks are using my rig.

I went with ClamWin as it has served me

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Looking for A Windows Mobile Utility…

I’m a big fan of using my Windows Mobile phone and IMAP to keep current with my work email. Regardless of where I am, I always see my mail within 10 minutes — and that has been a real lifesaver a time or two.

However, there’s one huge drawback to the WinMo IMAP implementation: No real

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VMware Server Bridging Problem (fixed)

Sometimes you just have to give credit…

Earlier today I installed VMware Server on a machine at work and then built a client Windows 2003 server on it. The install went smoothly, but once it was up and running I found I couldn’t get it on the network. In fact, I couldn’t even ping the gateway

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Of F11 and Browsers

A common browser keyboard shortcut that I’ve never used – nor properly cared about until recently – is F11. With most browsers, tapping F11 puts you into some variation of full screen mode. When using a tiny display or low resolution you might find this very helpful to maximize what you’re seeing.

To be clear, this

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The Obligatory Eee Follow-up Post

I’ve had my ASUS Eee PC 4GB for about 4 days now. I’m absolutely infatuated with it – to the point that it impacted my productivity this week at work! In hindsight I’ve probably spent too much time with it, but that time has resulted in a little machine that is very useful to me

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