They are. Or at least, it can really help to assume they are. A short while ago, I read this from Alex Yumashev’s Jitbit blog: I just overheard this conversation between two developers at a co-working site: “I plan [on] creating a prototype for my new XXXX application, whatcha think it should be – a web-app, [...]

I’m not a Windows user primarily. The vast majority of time my computers and laptop boot into Linux, specifically Ubuntu, as of recent. However, I do have several of my machines set-up with both Ubuntu and Windows 7. One of my major gripes with Windows, which has always been there, is that after a clean [...]

It always annoyed me that Nokia adopted the strange Windows alphabetical lettering of its storage devices. Regardless, the only issue I’ve ever had with my Nokia N97 is the primary C: storage device running low on memory. The ‘C:’ device represents the very small, primary internal flash memory present on the phone. The secondary storage [...]

I’m quite highly anticipating the release of Google Chrome OS – Google’s net book and appliance cloud operating system. There are a few main reasons behind this. Simplicity and Openness Note that I combine the two here. It is very important that both software user friendliness is combined with the nature of free and open source software to prevent [...]

Wine is essentially a Windows compatibility layer for Linux, allowing Linux users to run Windows applications in a much more direct manner than full operating system virtualisation. More information about Wine is to come shortly. If you wish, you can visit the official Wine website to get more details about this excellent free piece of [...]

In Windows, you can find your uptime via one of the following two methods commands. To enter these commands open a command prompt from the Start Menu or just execute cmd.exe systeminfo | find “Up Time” net statistics server (Note that this command displays actually shows the last boot time from which the uptime can [...]