(hey, it’s a container for some cygwin hacks I stumble upon)
Intro:
Yes, I’m a sucker for Cygwin. Being “forced” to live inside a few windows boxes on the corporate world made me embrace this tool to escape from a few nazi-ish policies and improve my efficiency when faced with common (and then again, maybe not) tasks.
Cygwin [...]

So one day one wakes up and thinks about getting hat about a “new” operating system? So I installed OpenSuse. It was the worst two days of my life.
So, back to Ubuntu Dapper Drake. It seems that both Edgy, Feisty and all other distros featuring the latest crappy Xorg server don’t play along with the [...]

Apparently, after the initial scepticism, the OLPC project is gaining momentum. The USD 100 laptop is said to be rolling out of the factories and will soon start being distributed in the participating countries. The laptop will run a customized Red Hat/Fedora linux distro and I’ve found some pointers regarding how to run the OLPC [...]

Interesting marketing stunt: First, we had logos written on top of physical structures which aren’t really there (here’s an example), now Disney is using Google Earth to promote its blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (PotC2). How? One of the official sites has a .KMZ overlay for download which adds the pirates islands, [...]

Wow. Sysinternals has been acquired by Microsoft
There was a time where Microsoft was known for buying small startups that looked like some kind of threat or offered software pieces tightly binded to Windows (and most of all, popular) so that these could slowly be bundled with their software. Most of these software solutions ended [...]