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3 Strange Things I Found on the Internets Yesterday

I am not sure why the webmaster for the Cambridge music venue T. T. the Bear's Place feels that they are competent to tell me what Internet browser I should be using when they cannot spell, have not realized that using Internet Explorer 5.0 is akin to directly sending all of your banking information to [...]

Installing Windows Vista Beta 2 on 256 MB

I install Windows Vista Beta 2 on a computer with a Celeron processor and 256 MB.

Superfetch, Prefetch, and Windows Performance

Last week, the Inquirer posted a letter in response to an article they wrote about Microsoft's claims that the next version of Windows (codenamed Longhorn, officially named Vista - at least for now) would have better performance than Windows XP. The letter, written by "snakeye" (a sketchy nickname, I know), claimed that Longhorn's (er, I [...]