It is time to say good bye. I started blogging for That Damn PC four months ago and I have now decided to leave because of personal reasons, especially related to time management. I hope at least a few of my posts have helped someone sometime. They have helped me learn a few things so as to share th...

We have all heard of the Pirate Bay, the bit torrent search engine site. It was sued by some biggies of the MPAA like MGM Pictures and Sony BMG, and the case began its trial yesterday in the Stockholm district court. A police investigation took place way back in 2006 and the current trial is conside...

Microsoft has done it again. After six Windows Vista editions, now it has decided to continue with six Windows 7 editions. The editions are going to be called Home Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate. The list differs at one item from Windows Vista: Business beca...

Jason was kind enough to accept my guest posts for his blogs Microsoft Weblog and Uncover the Internet. These are my first guest posts ever: one about Microsoft’s involvement with Open Source and another about watching movies legally on Youtube. I hope you enjoy them. Tags: b5media, Hulu, Keepvid,...

We are all aware of the terrible Australian bushfire. Today I came to know about another recent fire accident. My fellow b5media blogger Cheril Vernon lost her home and her pets about ten days ago when a fire broke out at her home in Palestine, Texas. Cheril writes three blogs for b5media: NewToTV.c...

I’ve realized that my last Tech Channel Roundup was nearly a month ago and I’m guilty of it. So, bear with me as I overload you with a number of interesting links that I found in some of the sister blogs. Milo discovered a product especially useful for enterprises of all sizes called Nightwatchm...

It has been nearly two months since I introduced Cygwin. We’ve seen how to install Cygwin, customize the terminal, a few text editors and a tabbed terminal emulator. Enough with the playfulness. One final configuration and let us move on to the geekier fun. Directory Structure Cygwin uses the POSI...

Gmail is a pretty good mail service provided by Google which strives towards accurately catching spam, and is very successful in catching the phish. One thing that empowers the people behind Gmail is the volumes that Google sees. The Google Enterprise Mail is apparently a much-in-demand service too ...

Microsoft offers a suite of utilities called Sysinternals for free for troubleshooting your PC. The suite is far superior to many of the alternate freewares that are available. Mark Russinovich, now a Fellow in Microsoft, originally developed them along with Bryce Cogswell when they were in the comp...

That Damn PC wishes you all a merry christmas, a happy hanukkah, and any other holiday you are celebrating. In case you are taking a vacation, have a safe one and forget all your worries including those about the PC. When you come back, I will be here waiting to help you in any way I can. Cheers, Sr...