- Using the Windows 7 User Interface
- Dec 3, 2009
- This chapter provides an introduction to the Windows 7 user interface to help previous Windows users up to speed quickly with all the changes.
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- "The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got" with Rand Morimoto
- Feb 19, 2013
- Rand Morimoto, Microsoft MVP and president of Convergent Computing, writes about the importance of learning PowerShell, even if you're comfortable with using GUIs.
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- (Remote) Controlling Your Windows XP PC
- Jul 15, 2005
- Kulvir Bhogal shows you how to get to the next level of laziness with a low-cost remote control solution for Windows XP and Winamp.
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- 10 Things I Hate About (U)NIX
- Nov 4, 2005
- UNIX was a terrific workhorse for its time, but eventually the old nag needs to be put out to pasture. David Chisnall argues that it's time to retire UNIX in favor of modern systems with a lot more horsepower.
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- 10 Things I Hate About U(NIX) Revisited: Readers Speak
- Mar 17, 2006
- After receiving several comments to his November 2005 article on hating UNIX, David Chisnall offers his responses and further insight on his continuing disdain for UNIX.
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- 5 Easy Steps to Using Virtualization Technology
- Apr 4, 2008
- Virtualization tools make it possible for anyone to accommodate Linux machines inside the Windows desktop.
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- A Basic Tour of FreeBSD
- Feb 7, 2003
- Unleash the power behind FreeBSD by tackling its command line interface and learning to perform some basic operations.
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- A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Windows Security
- Aug 13, 2010
- J. Peter Bruzzese provides insight into some examples of security enhancements in Windows you might (or might not) be aware of.
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- A Brief History of Microsoft Windows
- Aug 3, 2009
- Michael Miller is your tour guide for 25 years of Windows: from Windows 1.0 to Windows 7.
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- A Cocoa Application: Views
- Apr 14, 2006
- This chapter introduces Interface Builder, a tool no less important to Cocoa development than Xcode itself. IB is used as a straightforward tool for laying out windows and views. You'll see how to set the many options for automatic sizing of embedded views and how to use Interface Builder's own simulation mode to verify that your layout and sizing choices work.
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- A Complete Deployment Image
- Dec 13, 2000
- Windows 2000 deployment expert Jeffrey Ferris shows you how to combine a computer-naming script with NETSET.EXE and a network configuration script to completely deploy a Windows 2000 Professional workstation using a disk-imaging utility and SYSPREP.
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- A Few Active Directory Basics
- Jul 24, 2000
- Active Directory is one of the most talked-about new features of Windows 2000. There are a number of new issues to consider when planning deployment of this new directory services architecture, and there are even more new terms to learn.
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- A File as Seen from WMI
- Oct 26, 2001
- In this article, Matthew Lavy gives a simple taste of the world of WMI by showing how you can use it to investigate and manipulate a file in an NTFS filesystem.
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- A First Look at Kubuntu-Jaunty (v9.04)
- Jul 8, 2009
- Are you looking for a stable, customizable, modern OS with a small footprint? A. Lizard thinks that Kubuntu-Jaunty just might be the distribution you are looking for.
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- A General Kernel Call Interface
- Jul 30, 2001
- In this excerpt from Undocumented Windows 2000 Secrets: A Programmer's Cookbook, Windows programming expert Sven Schreiber discusses kernel-mode functions.
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- A guide to securing your home computer system with a Linux firewall
- Nov 6, 2000
- Secure your home computer or network with a 24-7 connection by installing a Linux firewall. Part one of this three part series gets you started doing just that.
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- A Guided Tour of the Common Information Model Repository
- Jan 10, 2003
- This sample chapter examines the classes and associations that hold the elements of most interest to users of WMI.
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- A Half-Way Step to Apple’s Source Code: An Interview with David Chisnall
- Jun 5, 2009
- Longtime InformIT contributor David Chisnall talks Cocoa, GNUstep, and the Étoilé project with Linda Leung.
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- A History of Operating Systems
- Jan 18, 2002
- In this excerpt from his book, Modern Operating Systems, Andrew Tanenbaum briefly looks at a few of the highlights of the evolution of Operating Systems.
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- A Linux Firewall for Your Home
- Apr 1, 2001
- Secure your home computer or network with a 24-7 connection by installing a Linux firewall. Part one of this three part series gets you started doing just that.
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