recently computeractive mag gave an interesting item on creating a anvi virus boot linux cd and by updating a key and then using the boot cd (not HD normal boot) and searching using the key updates...

On a windows network ubuntu 8.04 is great it sees and works every file I want on XP machines. vice versa is impossible. firewalls down, same user name and same password (linux VNC cant connect, it...

just a very old fashioned tip but works every time is to use the command processor > and then using dos commands and you can remove almost anything! if you do not know DOS then at the command prompt...

having used emulators from the old BBC on IBM andthen using dos on 386 /486/pentiumand then trying to use various ohter emuations one realises thathere are always restritions on using nany type of...

I use kubuntu to experiment and in /system/advanced (tab on top of window/ youcan go to file or to system etc and then anywhere formthere!
best O L
M

after years on Ms I have as silver surfer streted Kubuntu. Printers fogt it use gnome printing to connect to xp x 2 netwirk printers and it works and doesnt fallover!

Problem problem .. Linux...

I've done it.... success at last (two months or more.... great.... and how you perhaps wonder.

Well I was fed up with KDE falling over and not finding printers so in the adept manager I looked...

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I have a samsung laser and a canon s9000 colour printer on a windows network using XP. (2 or 3 computers but only one handles the printers, any XPmachine prints over...

I agre with a lot of what has already been said, but I always asqk my clients not what computer they want to buy but what are they going to do with it?
ANY computer since pentium 1 (and even the old...

just to reinforce views... I have had 30 yrs in computing and have reently moved to Kubuntu and have downloaded a lot of open software including office etc. I have as yet to meet virus or malware or...

well as a newbie I tiried red hat, suse, and settled oin Kubuntu 71 as an IOS cd works wonders when all else falls over! It is most like windows nd easy to follow

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Updating to Kubuntu 7.1 disables cd and dvd systems! Solve this by leaving 24 hours updating again and then it works!!

I have followed many forums to get a windows printer (actually two of them)...

I have search google and many threads to find ouot why reently the control panel and some shortcuts do not work. Iam fully protected (spam AV spy rootkits etc) and apparently clean.
I ve tried...