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Square Trade laptop reliability 2009

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123622(EXCHG.65).aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/format-learning-snacks.aspx#win7   Internet Explorer is recommended, as the “snacks” are in silverlight format.

I just saw this on a website somewhere, and thought it was hilarious (and quite true)… “Cr@pple clones the FSF’s Darwin OS, builds on top of it, licenses it as proprietary, breeds enthusiastic fans, locks it to their hardware, cheats open source, and expects to get away with it? Now’s my time to fight…..” Taken…

http://servicemyphone.motorola.com/iden/support/showSoftwareDownloads.do

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Currently, Bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486, Pentium/PentiumII/PentiumIII/Pentium4 or x86-64 CPU including optional MMX, SSEx and…

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1178937&page=1

If you have an Xbox and have been thinking about getting a wireless card for it, but you don’t want to spend a lot on microsoft’s adapter, you can use a wireless router that you may have sitting around to do the job. You’ll need to use DD-WRT’s firmware to load onto the router before…

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/default.aspx