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Maxtor SSII and VMWare

I purchased a 320GB Maxtor Shared Storage II similar to this one a little over a year ago. My main reasons for the purchase was because it had 10/100/1000 gigabit Ethernet RJ-45 port connection. One day I decided to turn the device off to conserve on energy and the next day it wouldn’t turn on. [...]

Windows, Leopards, and Penguins

In mainstream computing the typical operating systems we hear about are Windows, Leopard, and Linux. There are several other operating systems that you may not have hear about: Sun Microsystems’ Solairs, IBM’s AIX, Amiga’s AmigaOS, SGI’s IRIX, Novell’s Netware to name a few. So how do you know which operating system to choose?

Forgot your password in Ubuntu

“Duh!!! What’s the freakin password again?” See, the problem is not with memory nor do I lack the interest to manage and maintain my operating system installs, it’s just that I have way too many operating systems installed.

My top 10 picks: Opensource Applications

1. Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu is an operation system base on Debian and sponsored by Canonical. The Ubuntu community is growing very large, as well as the community support. For a small fee Canonical offers high level customer support. Ubuntu offers easy installations and superior hardware configuration and recognition.