Archive for February, 2007

Cuba Switching to Open Source Software

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 17 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: General

It seems like a trendy thing to do these days. Drop Windows and switch to Linux. Asian nations are trying to switch to open source, and so are China, Brazil, and Norway. Now Cuba is trying to drop proprietary software. Cuba wants to switch away from Windows because they don’t trust Microsoft and the U.S. [...]

FTP Problems With Internet Explorer 7

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 16 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: How To

Version 6 of Internet Explorer had an easy to use FTP browser. All that you had to do was enter the FTP site in the address bar and then hit enter. You would get an error message and after this dialog box is closed, open the File menu and select Login As. Then enter your [...]

Screen Captures the Easy Way

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 13 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: How To

I write a great deal of software documentation and I use screen captures to make the document easier to read and look at. People tend to avoid reading large amounts of text. Placing images, links, or tables in the document tends to make it less threatening. I normally use Corel Capture which comes with the [...]

Reset Password for Webmin

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 12 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: How To

This happens to everyone at one time or another. You go on vacation and when you come back, you forget all of the passwords on your computer. Well, I only forgot one password: the login for Webmin. I failed logging in several times and then Webmin blocked my IP. Getting localhost blocked isn’t a good [...]

XML Notepad 2007

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 11 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Applications, Reviews

The typical application for editing an XML document by most people is either with the default Notepad or Wordpad applications that comes with Windows. While these editors are sufficient for getting the job done, they are not the best way for working with large files or deeply nested XML trees. Microsoft’s XML Notepad 2007 addresses [...]

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