Distributed version control system comparisons

Good, and mostly unbiased, comparisons of git vs. mercurial:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1598759/git-and-mercurial-compare-and-contrast/1599930#1599930
• http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis
• http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/

The last one also compares to subversion and bazaar, and includes great example use cases for common operations in all four systems.

Running Windows Production Activation

If you dismissed the Activation dialog box after installing Windows, but now want to go through activation without waiting for the dialog box to nag you again, just run "oobe/msoobe /a" via "Start -> Run".