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It seems I won't use my Galaxy Nexus on my LTSP thin client through my new USB cradle any time soon. Probably I'll dig up the necessary LTSP modifications to make it work, but not right now. Wi-Fi works just fine. Or almost fine. For some reason if I do long data transfers, the transmit speed gradually fades away ... right until connection is lost. Try to copy a 2GB file from your Nexus to an SSH server (via some SFTP client, eg. AndFTP) and you'll most probably see what I mean.

The respective Wikipedia article lists most of these already:

• Ext2 Installable File System For Windows: for Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008, read+write access to Ext2/3/4 (the latter two only without journal!), drive mapping supported
• DiskInternal's Linux Reader: for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista, read-only, no drive mapping (a filebrowser UI is available)
• Ext2Fsd: for Windows 2k, XP, Vista and Win7, read+write for Ext2/3/4, journals supported, drive mapping supported
• Explore2fs: for various Windows versions, read-only access to Ext2/3 (probably Ext4 wo journal), no drive mapping (filebrowser UI)
• Paragon ExtBrowser: for Windows XP and Vista, read+write to Ext2/3 (probably 4 wo journal), no drive mapping (access through a special folder in Windows Explorer via Windows Name Space Shell Extension)
• Ext2Read: for various Windows versions, read-only access to Ext2/3 (probably Ext4 wo journal), no drive mapping (filebrowser UI)

I didn't think it was possible, but somebody created an open source variant of Process Explorer ... just a little bit better. It's simply brilliant.

DiffMerge is an application to visually compare and merge files within Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

• Graphically shows the changes between two files. Includes intra-line highlighting and full support for editing.
• Graphically shows the changes between 3 files. Allows automatic merging (when safe to do so) and full control over editing the resulting file.
• Performs a side-by-side comparison of 2 folders, showing which files are only present in one file or the other, as well as file pairs which are identical or different.
• Right-click on any two files in Windows Explorer to diff them immediately.
• Rulesets and options provide for customized appearance and behavior.
• Compatible with 42 different character encodings.
• Identical feature set on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

"The Porting Team is a small community that specializes in porting Windows games and applications to the Mac with some tools we like to call wrappers (Cider, CrossOver, Wine)."

"Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X. The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. It works like a wrapper around the Windows software, and you can share just the wrappers if you choose. Best of all, its free! Make ports/wrappers to share with others, make ports of your own open source, free, or commercial software, or just make a port for yourself! Why install and use Windows if you don’t need to?"

It seems that Windows by default caches the result of failed (aka. negative) DNS lookups for 6 minutes! If you're using dynamic DNS in your company, this can be pretty upsetting. Imagine: you try to check whether a virtual machine is up and running by pinging it's FQDN (eg. virtual12.example.com). Since you use dynamic DNS registration, the ping request will tell you that the DNS request failed. What you probably don't know is that the "DNS Client" Windows service will cache this reply for you for 6 minutes! You start the virtual machine and expect to be able to ping it in a few seconds. Wrong! You're DNS client won't find the IP for the virtual machine (even though the VM already registered the hostname with the company DNS server) for another 6 minutes.

On linux you can set protocol handlers (eg. for http and https) to various apps via the network.protocol-handler.expose.* preferences. On Windows Thunderbird does not honor these, so you've to do it a little differently.

I used to set the F12 key in Ubuntu as the global hotkey to play/pause the current song in my music player (since my keyboard does not have media keys). Very useful since it's a key that is easy to find and press (eg. pressing a key that is surrounded by other keys requires a lot more attention/concentration from you). However in Windows F12 does not work as a hotkey (by default). If an app tries to register F12 as a global hotkey, it'll get an error.

"After you move the Microsoft Windows XP system (boot) disk to a backup computer, you may receive the following Stop error when you try to start the Windows XP-based backup computer:

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF741B84C,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE