A few weeks ago, my Dad and my Brother both bought identical Windows Vista machines, at the same shop, at the same time. Although the hardware specs of these computers were terrific, the performance of Windows Vista was "moderate" to say the least. An even bigger problem was that some of the older XP programs …

If your are "fortunate" enough to have to delete a lot of file from a directory on a Unix system, you are likely to encounter the "Parameter List Too Long" problem. This problem is caused by Unix trying to replace the "*" you just used by all names in the directory. This list is then …