Best summary I have seen. Click to access R41911.pdf
MS-DOS is 30 years old today…
Thirty years ago, on July 27 1981, Microsoft bought the rights for QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000. QDOS, otherwise known as 86-DOS, was designed by SCP to run on the Intel 8086 processor, and was originally thrown together in just two months for a 0.1 release in 1980. Meanwhile… (Click for the …
Apple’s Media Event
Today’s Apple event went down as planned, and while there were no real surprises, it was nice to see the rumors come alive. I’ve yet to see the Nano Touch in action (the video isn’t live yet) but I can’t imagine it will be easy to navigate on such a small screen. So the quick rundown: iTunes 10 includes “Apple …
Free Coding Classes
Google is offering free online classes in C++, Java, Python and Go. Take advantage of the free classes here!
Apple to Live Stream their Sept 1st Event
Marking the first time the tech giant has done so, Apple will broadcast tomorrows event using Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming. You’ll need to be running on an iPod touch, iPad, iPhone, Mac running Safari and 10.6, or a Windows machine running the latest Safari (Windows is unconfirmed). Some of the better rumors circulating about tomorrows announcements
Doctor Who – Guide to the Daleks
During the great war on Scarro, Davros tricked the Thaals and Kaleds to destroy one another in order to accelerate acceptance of his Mark 3 travel machine – a device he had created to house the creatures the humanoids of that planet would eventually become.
Acronis True Image 2010 – This Image is Already Mounted.
If you’re receiving this obscure error and can’t find a resolution on Google, check your c:ProgramDataacronisTrueImageHomeDatabase directory and delete the file: mounted.xml The records got outta sync, so just delete and retry.
Trixbox NAT issues
I have several static IP’s and recently ran into an issue while changing a few things around. my Trixbox (asterisk) would render only one side of a conversation, resulting in the remote party being able to hear everything, but only silence from any extension in the house. After googling for some time I came across the problem. Asterisk had lost …
Trouble running OS/2 under VMWare Fusion?
My first issue with running OS/2 (eComStation) under VMWare stemmed from the fact that the PC I was running it on had an older dual core processor that didn’t support hardware virtualization, so I tried it on my Macbook Pro. After a little fiddling I found the solution. Here I’ll document the larger issues I had. If larger posts are …
DOSBox 0.74 for Mac OS X
Just a quick tip, you can find your DOSBox configuration file in ‘ ~/Library/Preferences/DOSBox 0.74 Preferences.conf’ I keep my old DOS stuff in /users//msdos so to make things a little easier, find your way to the end of the conf file to the section [autoexec] and add this line: This will mount your dos directory and then change over to …
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