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There are times when your Windows machine starts to slow down or when everything comes to a halt frequently. Although there might be many reasons to why such a slow degeneration of your Windows machine occurs, most of the time these reasons are related to malwares/spywares. These nasty programs attaches itself to your computer unknowingly […]

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After several days of testing and using Fedora 8, I was kinda loving it until I found out that my sound wasn´t working! Usually I will switch off my speaker when not in use, but yesterday I wanted to watch Prison Break S3 (again) and I was greeted with a silent video. I went to […]

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Some of my past HOW-TOs (Fiesty & Dapper) on desktop eye candy effects are based on Ubuntu distros. With the release of ATI´s new driver and Gutsy, installing desktop effects on Ubuntu is now a breeze for ATI users!
Fedora 8 (released early this month) included desktop effects in their distro package, similar to what Ubuntu´s […]

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After publishing “USB thumbdrive error: Windows cannot find Boot.exe” article the last time, I had several e-mails concerning the same problem but on a different electronic device. One reader claimed that she had this problem on both her thumbdrive and her hard disk (internal). Somehow she tried following the HOW-TO but it failed to materialize.
Another […]

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Well, if your problem is because of you being out-of-range from your wireless router, then no need to read on. However, if you seem to be in transmission range of your wireless routers but still facing these nagging disconnection problems, you might want to read on. This article mainly deals with users who are using […]

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Somehow there seems to be a problem with Singnet’s connection to overseas websites tonight. Torrents are downloading slowly, MSN seems to be lagging and overseas site just won’t load! There seems to be some problem at the Singnet’s side. Calling the tech support would be futile because they’ll just ask you to reboot your modem […]

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Lately, my USB thumbdrive was infected with a trojan virus, Boot.exe. Most probably, the virus was written onto my thumbdrive from one public computers that I usually frequent. I was notified by the existence of the virus when my anti-virus started complaining that it found a Trojan in my thumbdrive. Since the virus is a […]

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Unlike some of the previous threads, this is fairly a simple process which is absolutely easy for even beginners. First, you’ll need to choose a program which can burn CDs on Ubuntu. By default, Ubuntu does not come with a CD/DVD burner software. There are a few reputable ones out there (for example, Gnomemaker) but […]

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This is an update from the previous article on Desktop effects on Ubuntu. Previously, the guide was to help users to install desktop effects of XGL+Compiz on Dapper. This guide however, is for the installation of XGL+Beryl on Fiesty Fawn. Just for clarity sake, I’m going to let in into a […]

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There are many guides that are written for this topic. I’ve looked at most of them and I’ve adapted this guide from an Ubuntu linux user, Strombringer.
Taken from its official website, “Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that has, since 1992, […]

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