Posted on November 17, 2007 by PakNik
By Aseem, Online Tech Tips
Here’s a quick how-to guide on how you can track email to it’s originating location by figuring out the email’s IP address and looking it up. I have found this to be quite useful on many occasions for verification purposes since I receive lots of emails daily due to my blog. [...]
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Posted on November 16, 2007 by PakNik
by saikee
It can be done, that’s all as saikee has shown. Whether you are really going to use all 145 OS, well…….
The 145 systems are:-
3 Dos
5 Windows
137 Linux
Hardware used
The PC is a self-assembled unit using the cheap components available. Nothing to write home about. Just average for an ordinary PC user say 5 years [...]
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Posted on November 16, 2007 by PakNik
by saikee
An installed Windows XP protects itself from being cloned even for the backup purpose. Specialised software like the Norton Ghost, Acronis or PowerQuest Drive Image has to be used so that the OS can be moved to a bigger hard drive in a disk upgrade.
Linuxs dd command also works the same way but this [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2007 by PakNik
By Scott Gilbertson
The first Firefox 3 beta is just around the corner and promises a number of enhancements, including a reduction of the notoriously large memory footprint. We’ve written extensively about Firefox’s memory problems in the past and while Firefox 3 will address some of the issues, it won’t solve the problem for everyone.
Part of [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2007 by PakNik
A large collection of eBooks teaching users everything from the basics to advanced linux. Please do consider making a small donation to cover the bandwidth expenses, as some of these downloads are pretty big.
Thanks to some people that doesn’t understand a simple message and kept leaching all books at one time, I have now [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2007 by PakNik
New web based Office document from Adobe.
To start using it, as usual you need to register. Once you have done that, you can use Buzzword right away.
BuzzWord features - as far as I have discovered
7 fonts
Insert Image/Table/Endnote
Save as Buzzword doc or File ( .doc, .xml or .rtf )
Quite fast for an [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2007 by PakNik
Written by Hank Green
Sunday, 11 November 2007
Well…after all the naysaying, it took about a week for Wal-Mart’s $200 green Linux PC to sell out of their online warehouses. Of course, it probably isn’t selling quite that fast in stores.
The Everex machine, which runs on a power-sipping Via 1.5 Ghz processor, is the first [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2007 by PakNik
By Adam Pash
If the high price tag for Apple hardware has kept you from buying a Mac but you’re willing to roll up your sleeves and get adventurous, you can build your own “Hackintosh“—a PC that runs a patched version of OS X Leopard. What?!, you say. Apple’s move to Intel processors in 2006 [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2007 by PakNik
Awesome
Go to Jowstr for a bigger image
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Posted on November 11, 2007 by PakNik
TechCrunch have the solution for you.
To download a video to your computer, enter the YouTube URL for the video in the box above . It will be downloaded in flv format - use VLC or another compatible player to view it.
>> Go to TechCrunch
Another method is this. Add kiss to the YouTube url. For example, [...]
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