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How to get Gnome and the X Server working on a Compaq Presario SR1503WM
As we’re switching many of the computers where I work gradually over to Linux (to save on both software licensing costs, as well as to extend the life of the older hardware) I ran into a problem getting Ubuntu 8.10 running on a Compaq Presario SR1503WM. The install went smoothly, absolutely no hiccups there. Even [...]
Keep your Windows OS up-to-date to help alleviate potential performance problems
Do you keep having intermittent performance issues or are worried about having such? I’ve been seeing lots of comments and posts on computer helps sites where users have spent hours, days, weeks and often times lost important data, while costing themselves enormous amounts of money all because they weren’t keeping their Windows Operating Systems’s (OS’s)”up-to-date”, aren’t [...]
HELP. . . . . ABOUT:BLANK keeps showing up on my browser and doesn’t let me get to web sites. What do I do?
About:Blank is one of the most frustrating Browser Hijackers to stay around as long as it has and continue to do damage to systems. If you are hit you will totally be frustrated until you realize you have to do something. What you see that tells you your system has been hijacked by the About:Blank [...]
Mini-display port to DVI to HDMI
Nothing like taking a 13 MacBook or 15 /17 inch MacBook Pro and connecting to a 50” or 60” flat screen!!! From experience, let me tell you how awesome it is!!!! Are you one of those that has been trying to piece together cables so that your MacBook or MacBook Pro would work with your [...]
How do you access Dell’s recovery partition?
Jeffrey Safford I have a Dell Inspiron 518 running Windows Vista. My kids have managed to get it infected with the virus that poses like a virus scanner – XP Antivirus 2008 (runs as XPAntivirusUpdate.exe and xpa2008.exe). I can’t manage to get this damned thing removed, so I’m just going to have Windows reinstalled. Yeah, the [...]
EA Download Manager – “Flash Plugin Required.”
I ran in to this one myself while trying to download EA’s Command and Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath. When attempting to open The EA Download manager I got the error below: Flash plugin required. Select OK to launch web browser for Adobe’s Flash Plug-in download. The problem with this, is that I clicked OK on [...]
Call of Duty 4 hangs on launch
Name: Albert E. I purchased Call of Duty 4 off of Valve’s Steam program. The download went smoothly, with the game coming in overnight. The problem that I am having is that CoD4 isn’t opening. I double click the icon and it just says “Preparing to launch Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” and hangs [...]
Why does my Linksys WRT54G use 192.168.1.1 as its default address?
Name: JR Simpson Why is it that my Linksys routers all use 192.168.1.1 as their default address? I had a Motorola WR850G router before this and it used 192.168.10.1. What is so special about the 192.168 prefix? Why doesn’t my router use my internet IP address? The reason that your router uses the 192.168.x.x address [...]