Hello all, This small tutorial is designed to help those in need of installing Microsoft Windows XP on any PC that is capable of booting from a UFD (USB Flash Device). Hopefully, you will find this as easy and problem free as I have.
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I might be aging myself a little here, but I’m sure we all remember the old Folgers commercials where the premium coffee is switched with the much maligned Folgers instant. Microsoft did something similar recently in San Francisco to some folks who held a negative view of Windows Vista. They asked 140 non-Vista consumers to [...]
Cross site scripting can be a tough vulnerability to eliminate, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be. If you’re working on an ASP.NET project, the Microsoft Anti-XSS library is easy to use and freely available. Like a lot of developers, I’ve rolled my own anti-XSS by escaping specific characters, but it’s usually clunky and let’s [...]
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Well my highly publicized conversion to Linux is sort of over. I’ve still got Ubuntu installed on my secondary notebook, but I went back to WinXP on my primary notebook. There are some things I want to do, and it’s just a whole lot easier to use Windows (primarily work with videos of my daughter [...]
So there’s yet another lawsuit against Microsoft. This time, it’s Opera filing suit in the EU over Microsoft’s bundling of IE in Windows (again) and because IE doesn’t strictly follow web standards. Where do I begin? I’ll start with the bundling claim (yet again). Yes, Internet Explorer is bundled with Windows. You know what. So are other [...]