W3Schools.com, a great site for coding and statistical information, does a monthly poll on the main operating systems used today and the percentages of users taking advantage of each system. For July, 2012 it rolls out like this: Windows 7-53.8%, Vista-3.4%, Microsoft NT-1.2%, Windows XP-26.1%, Linux-4.9% and Mac-8.2%. It is obvious that Microsoft is currently…
Thanks to all of you readers who support the "Double Click" column by reading and writing. It is very much appreciated. Please keep it up. I always enjoy hearing from you. So it is that time of year again when we review all of the sites I have mentioned over the previous year. As always,…
Several weeks ago I mentioned a application when talking about Ubuntu called, VirtualBox. I had a couple of people writing asking if there was a program like VirtualBox they could use to run Ubuntu, Windows XP or another operating system on their Windows 7 computer. Guess what? There is and it is called, "VirtualBox", (virtualbox.org)…
This is something that bothered me, ever so slightly for a while, but still I wanted to find a “fix” to, so today here it is. I have successfully tested this with Windows Vista and 7. Here is what your explorer view looks like with the default settings. To display drive-letters first, followed by the…
According to the Internet, "Ubuntu" is an African word from the Bantu language "which has no direct translation into English, but is used to describe a particular African world-view in which people can only find fulfillment through interacting with other people…" Desmond Tutu has a good definition of it if you wish to take a…
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