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Windows machines can’t use more than 3GB of real memory

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Who would have ever thought we’d run into the 32-bit limitation. The long and short is that with all versions of Windows, 750MB at the top of memory is useless because it is used for I/O and if you have a 1GB video card, that is memory mapped, so that means you can use at [...]

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Remote Mac debugging

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

So if you have a Mac say at your friends home, is there an easy way to diagnose it. I’ve tried this a bunch with Windows machines, but never quite got all the connections right. So maybe Apple works better. On a single network this is great, you can Share Screen with other Mac’s and [...]

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Remote desktop between Mac and PC

July 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Geek

I use Microsoft Remote Desktop between Windows machines and it is very convenient to logon and see the screen of another computer. For Apple, they have something called Share Screen which is the same thing and is based on VNC protocol that lets you control one computer from another. But what if you want to [...]

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Font common to Mac and Windows

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Ampsoft explains what “browser safe fonts” are available. These are fonts that are both on Windows and the Macintosh. Codestyle.org has a study of what fonts are available on how many computers. Also, if you love typography, check out Typowiki.
You can also be a little more aggressive and assume that Microsoft Office is installed and [...]

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