Run like Hell

May 16, 2009

Linux.com

Last week linux.com started its new website (news on zdnet) after the URL linux.com was bought from The Linux Foundation. Here a screenhot of the new layout:

You can find linux-news related to hardware, software, embedded/mobile, business opensource or enterprise. Some of these news are pretty short (like this one,), but perhaps this will change in the future or it is enough for you ;-). I think the real benefit of linux.com is, that this page should evolve to the central news page for all linux distributions.
I hope, this posting made you curious and you are going to visit linux.com yourself...

May 12, 2009

Windows 7: New System Tools on board?

Is the next Microsoft operating system shipped with some new system tools?
Here a screenshot from Windows 7 with all system tools:

Disk Cleanup, Disk Defragmenter are old friends...
Internet Explorer is a system tool?!?
For Control panel see this posting. Here see some screenshots of the other tools:

Resource Monitor

Task Scheduler

System Information

Windows Easy Transfer i will show on another posting ;-)

If you are interested in Screenshots of a Windows 7 Installation click here.

May 11, 2009

Windows 7: Changing Network Parameters (like enabling DHCP)

There were many statements about Windows 7 and usability. So i tried to find a way to switch from DHCP to fixed ip-addresses.
First guess was on clicking on the network interface symbol in the task bar in the right corner... But from there i only got to screenshot 3 and i did not recognize, that this was the right panel. So here my way starting with the control panel:

Ok, network related topics should be unter the Network and Internet icon:

This windows was a little bit confusing. There are these four entries under Change your networking settings, but this tiny link Local Areal Connection led me to this familiar window: