Windows market share dips below 90%
The market share for the Windows Operating System dipped below 90% in November 2008 for the first time ever. [via PC World and Hitslink]
While Windows lost market share, Mac OS X gained during this period.
Have you tried OpenSolaris yet?
OpenSolaris is an operating system that provides a rich platform for building and running applications. The majority of the OpenSolaris code base is distributed under an OSI-approved open source license. OpenSolaris supports systems that use SPARC and x86 families of processor architectures. OpenSolaris is well-suited for desktops, laptops, servers, and data centers.
Like most operating systems, [...]
Windows 7 pre-beta available on BitTorrent
Windows 7 pre-beta is available on popular BitTorrent websites like ThePirateBay and Mininova.
If you are curious to know what Windows 7 is all about, go ahead and download a build. These builds are pre-beta and will surely not be very stable.
A screenshot (via Wikipedia) of Windows 7 is shown below:
Windows Vista: The requested operation requires elevation
If you are using Windows Vista as your operating system and tried out certain commands using the Command Prompt (cmd), you might have encountered the error “The requested operation requires elevation“.
As an example, if you open cmd and try to flush your DNS cache using “ipconfig flushdns”, you’ll get the error.
To avoid this issue, you [...]
Resizing partitions using GParted
GParted is a Gnome Partition Editor for the Linux Operating System. GParted can be used for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another [...]
