Viewpoint from the Web

In a small windows network you can contact (i.e. ping etc.) one windows computer from another using their name even if there isn’t a DNS server in the network. However, from a computer running linux, you would need to know the ip address of the computer you want to contact. The “computer name” the windows computers use in this instance are their netbios names which other computers discover using WINS resolution. Linux computers are usually not set up to use this.

The most common solution is to just add just add the PCs to your hosts file. But that would become tiresome if you have more than a couple of computers, and would not work at all if your computers use dynamic IPs.
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Not even Intel, one of their biggest partners! That’s a pretty damning verdict on Vista considering Intel have full source code access to the thing.

The source

First look at the the new Windows based OLPC.

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So, OLPC is going for Windows because Nicholas Negroponte believes that pushing open source software is scaring people away. Funny how he doesn’t think the poor sales could be because the original idea was mediocre at best and the delivery was simply abysmal. Read the rest of this article »

I’ve collated a list of common fonts available in different operating systems as well as other free fonts. This will help you select the fonts you should use for your web site without having to limit yourself to verdana!