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The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The project, originally developed internal to Microsoft, was released under the Common Public License (a first for Microsoft). With this release developers outside Microsoft can take advantage of the same toolset being used today to create the installation packages for products like Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, and many others. More information about the toolset and its OSS release can be found at: http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/

libmsn is a reusable fully documented C++ library for connecting to Microsoft's MSN Messenger service. It provides a high-level interface that allows an application to access instant messaging features with ease.

Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP, without using a commercial PC virtualization software...

Mondo is reliable, comprehensive and free (GNU Public License) disaster recovery software and backs up your GNU/Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition. In the event of catastrophic data loss, you will be able to restore all of your data (or as much as you want), from bare metal if necessary. Mondo runs on all major [Linux] distributions and is getting better all the time. You may even use it to backup non-Linux partitions, such as NTFS.

This product is a single floppy distribution of Linux that is designed for the sole purpose of sharing an Internet connection. The floppy can be created using either a Microsoft Windows wizard, or by using a set of Linux shell scripts. In addition to being designed to have very low hardware requirements, the floppy release of Coyote Linux is able to provide the performance and uptime that is expected from any Linux based system. This release is available free of charge.

IPT SysRq is a Linux iptables target that allows to do the same that the magic SysRq key does on a keyboard, but over the network. It includes syncing disks, remounting them read-only, rebooting the machine, etc...

Got to check this one out!!

Drupal is the name of the software which powers linuxweblog.com . There are Drupal web sites all over the world, and many of them share their registration databases so that users may freely login to any Drupal site using a single Drupal ID.

So please feel free to login to your account here at linuxweblog.com with a username from another Drupal site. The format of a Drupal ID is similar to an email address: username@server. An example of valid Drupal ID is mwlily@www.drupal.org.

Jabber is an open source instant messaging system designed to give the power of choice and freedom back to the users of instant messaging. Not only does Jabber allow its users to use (and create) clients for numerous platforms, but it allows people to communicate to whomever they want in the way which is most convenient for them.

You may login to linuxweblog.com using a Jabber ID. The format of a Jabber ID is the same as an email address: name@server An example of valid Jabber ID is mwlily@jabber.com.

Ever been caught without that rescue disk, thinking that everything was lost? Well, then, it's tomsrtbt to the rescue! Works with Linux and Windows, too! Read more here.

Last weekend, the auto-update on Windows XP completely corrupted the OS and the box went into a frenzy reboot cycle. There was no way to boot up in windows, even with a boot/rescue disk. I used "MandrakeMove", a complete OS on a single CD. This automatically recognized the Windows OS and mounted it to "/mnt/windows" and also recognized my external Iomega CD Writer. From this point on, I backed up everything from the home directory on Win OS, formatted and installed Linux...

On the XP box, you need to enable Internet Connection Sharing. This should be in your network connections, and probably in the properties of your Dial Up connection. Once this is done, then you need to make sure that both computers have network cards installed and working. After enabling ICS, it should set your Network card to a static IP address of 192.168.0.1 . This is a private IP (doesn't get routed over the internet) and is used for internal networks.

The next step is to configure your linux box. You need to have router or a share hub, but if you only have 2 computers and wanted to connect them up and share the internet connection, you need to use the twisted/cross cable to connect them up. Then configure the network information as follows:

IP Address: 192.168.0.x (where x is any number between 2 and 254)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.0.1

The gateway is very important as it tells the linux how to find the route through to the internet.

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