This wordpress installation was a nightmare! But actually most of it was my fault. I did not look at the right places.Plus i had no clue of how to go about with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). However, found some great posts lying around on the web, installed it and then it was ready to […]
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Most of us who use Gnome, use Nautilus as the file manager. It is a very powerful file manager we all know about it. It gives a user a lot of flexibility to customize the way we want to use it. But at one point where Nautilus gets confusing is when we try to access
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There are a lot of distributions that have been based off Ubuntu and also, a number of remastered editions of Ubuntu. These remastered editions fall short of being a seperate distribution as new version is made only after a new Ubuntu version is released.I have been trying a few of them to see which one
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During this time of recession, when people are struggling to keep expenses at check , lets see how linux can cut down household expenses.For a normal home user … Prices you incur when you buy a windows pc…( please feel free to convert the currency according to ur country) Normal services: Windows Vista home premium:
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Very often I have heard my friends say that their computer has become very slow and unresponsive. Some of my friends expressed their grief on how they lost their precious pictures and files to the deadly virus that ate the files up! Well , this is an everyday affair for the average windows user. Their
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I had been trying to remote control my friend’s pcs for a long time after I started using ubuntu but all my attempts went in vain while trying to use vnc viewer. somehow i am still unable to connect to other vnc clients in either windows or ubuntu over the internet. I know it can
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I had been fiddling with Linux for a few weeks now and due to that i had created a dual boot on my machine for windows vista and Linux ubuntu. Although i found Linux to be a quite superior OS i had to fall back to windows for some of the softwares which were not
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I have seen lots of forums saying that if you forget your vista login password and you dont have password recovery then you may have to reinstall your windows vista completely or buy a third party password recovery software which may cost atlest £50 . Well I think I have figured out a way to
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It gives a person a sense of security and satisfaction to hear one’s computer has a pre-installed firewall. But pre-installed firewalls ? Are they really helpful and secure? Will they be able to ward off the deadliest attacks on the computer? May be not or not at all. The MS Windows firewall is one of
