Cheaper Windows 7 License with Family Pack
We all know that Microsoft Windows licenses are very expensive. If you go to Microsoft store, you can see that the price for Windows Home Premium full version is US$199.99 per license. The upgrade version wouldn't be cheap either, it will cost you US$119.99 per license.
Most of computer users will have at least 2 computers, one PC and one Notebooks. If you have family, big chances you have more than 2 computers. If you buy the retail price of Windows 7 that would cost you more than US$ 200 just for the upgrade license. But there is a cheaper deal from Microsoft if you can wait a bit more.
Squid for Windows Server Tutorial
A short review of articles about installing open source Squid proxy server on Windows Server that I wrote some time ago.
I wrote 2 articles, one explaining on how to install Squid NT (the Windows version of a well known Linux based Squid proxy server) and the other explain about how to configure it into transparent proxy.
Installing VNC Remote Desktop on Ubuntu Linux VPS
I have a linux Ubuntu 8.10 VPS that I would like to have GUI and use it as remote desktop pc just like what we can do with Windows XP. Here are the steps that I run.
no_pubkey apt-get update
I just installed a virtual machine using Ubuntu linux and got NO_PUBKEY error messages when tried to update my Ubuntu installation using "apt-get update" command. To fix this you'll need to install some gpg key:
gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv 9AA38DCD55BE302B gpg --export --armor 9AA38DCD55BE302B | apt-key add -
Long Time Not Blogging
It's been quite some time that I haven't post anything new in my blog, this is due to my work and i haven't had time to spent to write some thing that i consider as worth the time to write about it. You know that blogging take a lot of time, especially if you want to make a good post.
People knows that blogging takes time, that is why more and more people moved to twitter and plurk for example, where you can post something within 1 paragraph or even 1 sentence. I haven't create twitter or plurk account my self as i don't want to spend more time on updating it.
I'm rather start to reduce my time browsing the internet, blogging, chatting, etc. as i start to feel that i takes too much time using the internet, somehow i feel that it's not productive. How about you? do you find your self addicted to blog, twitter, facebook, etc. ?
Changing Registered Owner and Organization on Windows XP and Windows Server
If you go to Control Panel > System you can see the information of windows registration owner and organization, you can change this information by editing the registry. These are the steps:
- Open RegEdit: Click on Start > Run... then type: regedit and click Ok
- Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion
- Edit the value of RegisteredOrganization and RegisteredOwner
Squid Transparent Proxy Server on Windows Server 2003
In this article I’ll talk on how to setup a transparent proxy on Windows Server 2003 using Squid NT. Squid NT is a port from Linux base proxy server called Squid. I have successfully installed and configured Squid transparent proxy on Windows Server and here is how I do it.
Installing Squid NT is very easy, first you can download Squid NT here, and then you can follow my old tutorial here: http://markus.revti.com/2007/06/installing-squid-cache-for-windows/
Although installing Squid NT is easy, however configuring transparent proxy on Windows version of Squid is a bit tricky as Squid NT have its limitation. From Squid NT website it’s stated: “Transparent Proxy: missing Windows non commercial interception driver”.
Is it Time to Move to Linux?
Recently I'm installing Linux Ubuntu on a PC and quite impressed with their developments. Linux Ubuntu becoming more and more user friendly for me (although for average PC users will still quite difficult to use Linux).
With my current needs of computing and work which is almost all of it is web based, such as chat with my abroad collegues, checking emails, social networking, blogging, web administration, server administration, etc. I started to feel that the need of Microsoft Windows is less demanding.
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