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Microsoft Windows XP

Blast from the past: originally published December 14th 2001. I don’t have to tell you that Microsoft launched their latest operating system on October 25th. There was enough media coverage, advertising and hoopla to let everyone who has a PC get…

ClearType in Windows XP

I was installing an LCD monitor on a Windows XP PC and the user thought the native resolution of 1650×1080 was too small so I ended up lowering it to 1280×800.  The text was jagged and horrible: very hard on…