Jul
23
2007

Access Linux partitions (ext2, ext3) from Windows Vista

This is a guide to access your Linux partitions (ext2 or ext3) from your windows Vista, if you are using XP read this.
First Download the FS-Driver from its webpage.
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Access Linux partitions (ext2, ext3) from Windows Vista

Jul
23
2007

How To Repair or Replace Boot.ini in Windows XP

The boot.ini file is a hidden file that is used to identify in what folder on which partition and on which hard drive Windows XP is located. Boot.ini can become damaged, corrupted or deleted for a number of reasons and is usually brought to your attention by an error message.
Follow these easy steps to [...]
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Jul
22
2007

How To Easily Convert Files to PDF For FREE

Sometimes I do need to convert my documents to PDF from time to time but not often. Since I don’t convert my documents to PDF all the time, I don’t want to waste my hard drive space to install a PDF printer driver and memory resources to keep it running in background all the [...]
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Jul
19
2007

Gmail Apps and Add-ons

Gmail’s huge success owes itself in large part to the wide range of applications, browser add-ons, styles, scripts and bookmarklets that work with it. From the get-go Google’s stayed out of developers’ way and turned a blind eye to unofficial Gmail add-ons, even ones that may very well violate its terms of service. Smart move: [...]

Jul
19
2007

How to Really reduce the memory usage in Firefox

After the release of Firefox 2.0, the memory leak has become an even more notorious problem than before. On average, Firefox should take up no more than 80MB of RAM. Any more than that and you can consider yourself a victim of Firefox’s memory leak. I’m sure you’ve probably already seen a ton of guides [...]

Jul
19
2007

Howto: Prevent a Linux kernel module from auto loading

In some situation you may want to avoid loading a Linux driver module automatically . For example:
[a] You would like to use proprietary device driver (I’m against any sort of proprietary drivers) and not inbuilt (reverse engineer) kernel driver.
[b] If your server system connected without a diskette / floppy drive; kernel will try to [...]

Jul
19
2007

Shred tip: Securely remove multiple files so no one can recover file again

Shred utility overwrites a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it if needed. The idea is pretty simple as it overwrites the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. By default file is overwritten 25 times. I’ve seen cases where law [...]

Jul
19
2007

Improve Your Windows XP – Speed Access

Every time your laptop connects to a Wi-Fi hot spot, whether it’s in your home or down at the coffee shop, it logs the name of the access point that you connected to in the Windows Preferred Network settings. If you accidentally (or maybe even deliberately) connect to your neighbor’s access point, and then find [...]

Jul
19
2007

10 must-have tools to improve Windows

Every version of Windows Microsoft has released has always left its users wanting more – either more features, more control or simply more value. And that’s left a huge hole for the many computer programmers out there to fill. In the end, we think they’ve done an admirable job providing solutions for Windows gaps that [...]

Jul
19
2007

Simple Tweaks to Improve the Speed of your Windows PC

Here are four simple tweaks for your PC that will help improve your overall computing and internet browsing experience.
Step 1: Change the IE Concurrent Download Limit – Internet Explorer’s default settings only enable you to download up to two downloads at the same time. Optimizing the download settings enables you to download up to [...]
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