Ran into this a couple of weeks ago. If you have someone who ran Pages and needs to convert their library of documents to Word format, do the following. This requires iWork ’09. Open script editor and paste in the script listed below. Save this script as an application Drag all your Pages documents on [...]

A minor annoyance of mine is the fact that, when you pin Windows Explorer to the taskbar in Windows 7 (Windows 7 ships this way), clicking the icon takes you to the ‘libraries’ location. Myself, I’d prefer that it go either to my Documents folder or the ‘My Computer’ location, and here’s how to accomplish [...]

In an effort to do some finance management I’ve switched from a dedicated server at $132/month USD to a VPS hosted by Burst.NET for the eminently reasonable sum of $10/month. For this price I get 50GB of disk space, 1GB of RAM and 1.5GHz of allocated CPU clock – more than I’ll need! I’m also working [...]

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I’ve long been a skeptic about VMware’s enterprise level pricing, and with good reason. I’ve heard it said that it’s often more cost effective to take all your existing servers and plate them in gold, even after one takes into account the ‘cost and power savings in the long-run’ – there are always incidental needs [...]

Google today announced Chrome OS, a Linux based operating system that will boot in seconds and feature the web as its primary application platform (presumably its only platform). This goes further to Google’s plan to ultimately eliminate the power and flexibility of the desktop computer. As application software is delivered from the web, the end-user’s [...]

The new HTML5 standard’s most prominently mentioned new feature is undoubtedly the video tag – this tag enables all compliant browsers to play video embedded in a site with no additional plugins The only problem? The organizations responsible for choosing a video format are undecided. In one corner is H.264, used everywhere from Blu-Ray disc [...]

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The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. It is our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channel for FreeBSD users around the world and as a complement to our fine mailing lists.
You can register and start using [...]

From the Linux list undoubtedly more are using CentOS, but the remarkable fact is that this known 1% CentOS is the same amount as the 5 Windows supercomputers.
by Dag Wieers