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Guess Vista launch date and win a prize

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

This is not only rewarding, but funny too: Discover Windows Vista and Office “12″.
You have a chance to win several prizes for guessing the launch date of Windows Vista. Choose a date and watch a crazy video.
Welcome to the Beta Experience
Thank you for your registration for the Beta Experience campaign. We will keep you […]

Took TOEFL today

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

So I took the TOEFL (Test Of English as a Foreign Language) test at a Thomson Prometric center this morning. I was expecting to take the Internet based test, however I took the computer based test, which is older. I expect a score of 280/300, but I will only find out in 2 weeks, after […]

How to copy the text of an error message

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Have you ever wondered how can you copy the text from a message box that is displaying an error? We all know the text cannot be selected, so you cannot do a Ctrl+C copy and then paste.
However there is a way, that few know of, which works with Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 […]

How to prevent Google from following a link

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

So you have certain links on your website that you don’t want Google to follow. What is there to do? Simply set the “rel” attribute of the hyperlink tag to “nofollow”:
<a href=”http://www.geekpedia.com” rel=”nofollow”>Geekpedia</a>
This will prevent search engines from following the link to http://www.geekpedia.com from your page. The browsers will treat it just like any other […]

Why Linux cannot dominate the desktop

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Linux advocates generally have a negative attitude on message boards, newsgroups, blogs and chats, which leads to many conflicts with the users of Windows or Mac OS.
They are trying to convince these users that Linux is better, by repeatingly saying that Microsoft is evil and everyone should switch to Linux.
So you decide to give Linux […]