Software - Maxime Rousseau

2008

Converting Windows Server 2008 R2 to a Workstation OS

In a previous post, I already told you how you can get a free, fully legit copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 directly from Microsoft if you are a student in pretty much any renown college or university. However, I understand that it is

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The Runner's Best Friend

Any iPhone owner's worst nightmare is forgetting his/her phone at home. It's really amazing how that damned device manages to affirm itself as a necessity for everyday life, and how people freak out when they somehow forget it. I know for a fact

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How to: Unify Libraries Across Many Installations of iTunes

About may of last year, I built a server for myself, in hopes of centralizing all the storage drives of my house to one constantly on box and simplifying access to files across the four computers on my network. And sure enough, a couple

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Raid in Linux: Easier than it Looks

Disk redundancy is something that I've been wanting in my home server for quite a while now, and since I now make (relatively) huge paychecks for working somewhere else than McDonalds, I thought that with the traditional HDD's prices plumetting because of the increasinly

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Open Source: The Next Business Model

Here is a little something I wrote for English class. I personally think that this article only recapitulates what everybody knows about open source, but hey, why not share it with the internetz? Enjoy From the very start of the emergence of computing, hundreds,

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Unresponsive iPod? Try this...

A friend of mine gave me his iPod the other so that I could fill it up with music while he was busy "reimporting his CDs", but I ran into unbeleivable amounts of trouble with his iPod. I've owned an iPod and

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Folding at Home Nvidia GPU Client Leaked!

This is fresh off of Overclock.net. Benchmarkreviews, which apparently has a member who had access to the closed beta of the Nvidia GPU client that was planned for next week, leaked the totality of the new client files on their website. Thanks to

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Flickr Uploadr Hits Version 3, Massive Improvement

It's a first: I'm one of the first to blog about a piece of software. A happy coincidence really: in the process of the downgrading from Vista to XP x64, I formatted and lost all of my software, and it's today, while trying to

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Synergy, Productivity++

On a computer, we power users don't just do something, we multi-task, ALL. THE. TIME. It's a known and documented fact, we like to juggle with multiple apps that do multiple things, on multiple computers with multiple displays. We want to, no have to,

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Widescreen Gaming: Not That Simple

With the purchase of my monitor a few weeks ago and new graphics card just a couple days old, I'm still pretty fresh to the way of life that is using a wide screen monitor. Although with most apps using any resolution is no