t e c h i e - t a l k s ::: technology at its best

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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When Fedora Core 6 (FC6) was released, it came with an earlier version of Mozilla Firefox and decided to skip version 2.0 altogether. Hence, if you’ve just gotten yourself a fresh installation of FC6, you’d probably be using Mozilla Firefox version 1.5.x instead of the latest version.
Taken from FC6 wiki:
For a variety […]

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After troubleshooting many PCs, I was thinking to myself; Why not share what I know in troubleshooting PCs to everyone?! It’s much cheaper if you could troubleshoot yourself rather than brining it to a PC clinic. It generally costs a minimum of $40 for a single visit to the doc to just troubleshoot a PC. […]

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OK here’s my first tech post for this year! It’s a short description on how to get connected in NUS using Intel PRO/Wireless.
I’ve had lots people complaining to me that their connection to the main wireless network in NUS is always bad. Furthermore, most of the time, they could only connect to the alternative NUS […]

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As promised! This is the most complicated linux issue posted here. Not a linux expert here but managed to get xgl and compiz working with Ubuntu. Thus, this is a short compiled “how-to” install xgl+compiz on an Ubuntu linux machine.
The machine I’m using is Acer 3210 laptop with ATI Mobility X700. I’ve been reading around […]

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I had a hard time trying to get my Cruzier to work in my Kubuntu Breezy Linux. Everytime I plugged in my thumbdrive, it gives me an error message “media:/sda1 does not exist”. I was getting frustrated with this because I had to save some of my files from my Ubuntu to my thumbdrive so […]

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How can we live without it? I’m sure many of you have encountered and used this software. The torrents are “God sent” and brought about a change in P2P file transfer networks. Once we are so used to Kazaa and its mirrors like iMesh, Limewire and eMule. After supernova.org opened up a website dedicated to […]

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