Archive for the 'Windows' Category

Turn off the Firewall Balloon

Monday, September 4th, 2006

If you’re at all familiar with home networking, the windows firewall found in Windows XP SP2 is nothing but a nuisance. After you’ve turned it off, you will continue to get annoying pop-up balloons telling you how risky your decision to forgo Microsoft’s protection was. Fear not, after turning off the Windows firewall, […]

Premade Windows XP for Mac Bootloader Arrives

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

As expected, the torrent sites are alive and kicking it with a premade Windows XP for OS X install disc. The disc combines the now infamous $13,000 bootloader with your typical Windows XP install disc, making sure you Intel Apple heads are totally covered and totally illegal. This is another one of those, […]

winxponmac.com Contest Over

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Well, it looks as if the contest to dual-boot Windows XP and OS X on the new Intel based Macs is over. The winner will receive $13,854 which was donated by various interested parties (some individuals, some corporations). A download of the “hack” is expected to be released shortly. Stay plugged into winxponmac.com […]

IE7 Requires SP2

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Not that this is any surprise, but it appears as though IE7 requires SP2. We’re getting the itch to check out the new MS browser, but we have our reasons for not wanting to install the nasty update.