Articles from August 2008



There is an Ubuntu for the Eee PC (link)

I blogged an article on installing Ubuntu on Eee PC’s, on my other blog site, umpc-users.com. There is now a full distro designed for those little machines. Read more here.

phpMinAdmin: MySQL editing made easy

I found this article on Linux.com. phpMinAdmin is an alternative to phpMyAdmin, to manage your databases from a Web interface. This is a single PHP script that you drop on your web server. I won’t get in all details about it, but it has a lot of functionalities, and is great if you do not [...]

New version of WordPress installed: 2.6.1

WordPress 2.6.1 is now installed. This is the new stable version. JF

New blog on Ultra Mobile PC’s UMPC www.umpc-users.com

I have started a new blog on the Ultra Mobile PC’s, a.k.a UMPC’s.  This blog is happening after I got myself an ASUS Eee PC 900, and went through some modifications and testings of my own. But this blog is open to any UMPC of any brand name and any OS. It is widely open [...]

Have you heard about ExplorerXP ?

ExplorerXP is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non – commercial use) file manager for Windows 2000/XP. Unlike the regular Windows Explorer, it displays the total size of each folder and allows you to browse multiple folders from a tabbed interface. From some reports, it would also work well under Vista. It [...]

PeaZip – Multi-Platforms

From the Publisher:PeaZip is a free, open source, cross platform, portable archiving and compression utility, with encryption and volume split features. Has full for support: 7Z, 7Z-sfx, ARC/WRC, BZ2/TBZ2, GZ/TGZ, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, split, TAR, UPX, ZIP. You can open, browse, extract, test: ACE, ARJ, CAB, CHM, COMPOUND (MSI, DOC, XLS, PPT), CPIO, ISO, Java [...]

Vista’s Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit

Here we go [again] !!! Despite everything that Microsoft tries to do, there will always be security vulnerabilities in Windows world, and this one seems to unpatchable. Rather than giving all details here, I’ll give the pointer to the actual article. Linux users of this world, enjoy !!!!

Disable the User Account Control (UAC) under Vista

There are several methods of completely disabling UAC under Vista. This is only one of them. Since I don’t use Vista, I cannot test it. But if someone else tries it, please let me know how it works. Launch MSCONFIG by from the Run menu. Click on the Tools tab. Scroll down till you find [...]