I am facing the same annoying beep issue which I experienced on my Linux notebook before on my XP machine now.

Most users don’ t fancy having sounds turned on their OS. In XP turning off your sound schemes will turn off all notification sounds but then all beeps get channeled to your pc speaker instead thus begins the annoyance. I read somewhere that MS claims that this is a bug with the motherboards, ya right!!

Fortunately the fix was simple. I downloaded TweakUI from MS and unchecked the “Beep On Errors” from the general options area.

Stumbled upon this cool wallpaper while browsing through deviantart. I is the handy work of emoryu21.

I love the anti Vista message embedded in it. It’s the

The full size image is 1024px by 640px.

Download the wallpaper at deviantart.

Thinking about upgrading to vista? This flowchart will help yo understand what’s needed, do you have it and finally force you to make a decision.

Source: earlmarcus.com

Just had my Dell Latitude D610 upgraded to Vista Enterprise. Smooth graphics, good speed, good security (small box pops up each time you do something like install apps or change settings, just like Linux) and the side bar’s pretty sweet too.

Even with all the above I still prefer my openSUSE 10.2 with XGL and Beryl, It makes Vista look like a kitten. What did they put into all the source code?

Personally I feel that Vista ain’t as user friendly as I expected it to be or as they claimed it to be. It’s hard to find what you need when you need it.

Hit my first bug when I got back. My Intel pro 2200 BG wireless connection was not getting DHCP lease from my IPCOP server. The weird thing was that my LAN card was fine and my wireless connection worked fine if I used a static IP.

Spent a whole night trying to feagure out the problem.Good news is I manged to fix it with some help from MS knowledgebase and a few registry tweaks. It seems to be a problem with the BROADCAST flag in DHCP discovery packets. In XP it’s off and in Vista it’s on. Non Microsoft DHCP servers don’t like this.

See the fix on the next page; Continue Reading ->

Want to work around Microsoft’s protection, Windows Genuine Advantage? The people at releaselog have a good walk through with screen shots that will help you work around the the protection. Check it out by going to the link below.

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Removal

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