The other day I was experimenting with PostgreSQL under Windows and I was very confused setting a locale in the command line when initializing the database cluster. If I didn’t specify a locale in the –locale option of initdb, then the locale that was used was: Greek_Greece.1253. Well, I needed to initialize the cluster with…
Since a long time ago I wanted to install Windows 7 and OpenSolaris on a physical partition and use them a bit, so to form an opinion about them. Although it is a bit early for a review, I decided to post a few thoughts about them.
During the last couple of weeks I’ve been checking on Windows Vista Home Basic edition. I intend to buy a license for this edition of Windows to use on one of my computers and I decided to run it in trial mode for a while before actually purchasing it together with some other software I…
Although I do not intend to run VMWare directly on a physical partition containing Windows any time soon, a recent discussion on a greek linux users group about the implications of such an experiment made me write a post about an article I stumbled upon today. The article author notes: VMWare is an incredibly useful…
After 30 months of exclusive use of Linux as my desktop environment, I decided that it was about time to refresh my knowledge of Microsoft Windows and Office. This is not about switching back to Windows. Actually, having used open-source software exclusively for such a long time, I’d say it would be quite impossible to…
Generally, the only reason for which you may need to create a bootable Windows CD is when you have updated the operating system installation files with the latest Service Pack (slipstream). Even in this case, chances are that most users will rather use standard windows software to create the bootable CDs than mkisofs under Linux,…