Recently, I heard about a few people having problems with their system time becoming incorrect in Windows XP when using boot camp. This is due to the different way Windows XP and OS X store internal date and time information.

If you look at page 17 of the Boot Camp Beta Setup Guide you will see that this issue is addressed.

Apple suggests synchronising the time to a network time server - a feature available in Date & Time Control Panel (XP) and Date and Time System Preference pane (OS X).

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Funny thing happened to me today! I had just finished installing Windows on my Macbook, and it was rebooting. As it was rebooting I noticed it was saying, “Press any key to boot from cd…” It was already past the apple boot loader, so I wondered if this extra boot from cd option would work with Linux. I popped in the last Ubuntu cd I had burned and behold! It booted with no errors, with X and all. I started poking around to see what worked and what didn’t. From what I can tell so far, EVERYTHING works.

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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication.

If you are not familiar about what IRC is, then I would suggest you read the Intro to IRC on the mIRC homepage. If you are already well acquainted with IRC and you are looking for a comprehensive-commands-guide, then you can also checkout the IRC command list also found on the mIRC homepage.

This guide will show you the different methods you can use to increase the privacy of your online conversations as well as way to conceal your identity a bit better.

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