More Options for the Old Machine

This is a follow-up to a year old post titled Another Option for the Old Machine.

A year ago I determined that Windows 2000 standard was the most reasonable OS for my old Thinkpad 600e laptop. It is just the most “usable” as far as performance goes.

However, during the past year I’ve installed and removed

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VMware Server 2.0 beta – First Look

I’ve been re-reading Hacking Exposed Web Applications, 2nd Ed. the past few days. Trying to get my mind back into the “hacker” mentality before I check over some of our recently developed web apps at work. Like ‘em or hate ‘em, I’ve found the “Exposed” series of books to be great primers (or refreshers, depending

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Tuesday Misc.

Did you catch the new Firefox 2.0.0.3 release today? Based on the release notes, it seems the primary focus was on security. I’ll have to track down the other changes — it seems to be running much better on my work machine since the upgrade (by better, I mean fewer CPU spikes that

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