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Posts Tagged ‘Windows’Bye-bye, Windows 2000!Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Today, support for Windows 2000 from Microsoft ends. Windows 2000 was released over ten years ago, on February 17, 2000. Although it may have had a shaky start as far as application compatibility goes, it is renowned as one of the most stable operating systems ever to come out of Microsoft, and it paved the way for Microsoft to merge the “home” (9x) and “business” (NT) lines of Windows with Windows XP, the following year. Windows – Turn off your screen NOWFriday, August 28th, 2009
One thing I always wished I was able to do is issue a command to turn off my laptop screen, but leave the computer running. If I’m going to leave my computer for a while, it doesn’t really make sense to leave the screen on wasting power, but the computer might be busy working on something, so I’d like to be able to leave it on. Windows, of course, lets you specify some amount of time to wait before turning off your screen. But, here’s a utility you can use to turn off your screen right away. Mount an SFTP/SSH server as a drive in Windows (for $40)Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Working with files between two Linux machines or two Windows machines over the network is pretty easy — in either case, you can share files on one machine and easily access them from the other. In fact, in either case you can mount a remote share and make it appear as part of the local file system, so any application can use the files just as easily as if they were local. This is done via SFTP over SSH (or a number of other methods) on Linux, and via Windows’s native file sharing (SMB) on Windows. In fact, you can even mount a Windows share on Linux pretty easily using Samba, and use Samba to create shares that the Windows machines can access. Now, a cool thing about SFTP over SSH is that it typically works even if the machines aren’t on the same LAN. You can access files on a machine across the Internet, and still mount the share so that applications can access the files as if they were local. This doesn’t always work with SMB, as lots of ISPs block the ports required, and even if you can get a connection over the Internet, performance is usually poor. | ||||
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