Weston Campbell is a geek who professes on trying out new things and getting deep into stuff. He is a science graduate who has taken keen interest in computers off late.
Orkut is in a jiffy raring to go to roll on mobile phones with Android. Now you can stay connected to your orkut contacts wherever you function — via scrap notifications, target photo uploads to your orkut albums, and a phonebook synced to your orkut friends’ phone statistics and status messages. Orkut in place of [...]
After sifting through a few error messages, we nominated this gem for the most unusual error message:
“Error Message: An unexpected error has occurred. (536821760) occurred at line 1768 in D:\xpclient \base\boot\setup\arcdisp.c”
This error message gives us absolutely no clue as to what is causing the problem. Fortunately, the Microsoft Knowledge Base does have an answer:
What’s triggering [...]
Why are all the new keyboards sold with special Windows keys on them? How about making them do real keyboard functions while in X Window? Here is how.
First you need to find out which key mapping you are using. Usually it will be US, it might also be en_US, ca or else. Locate the file, [...]
To configure an ethernet card in Linux, you need to enable it in the kernel. Then the kernel will detect your ethernet card if it is at a common IO port. But it will stop there, and will never check if you have 2 ethernet cards.
The trick is to tell the ethernet driver that there [...]
When you begin to delve into details about how Windows 7 works, the discussion can quickly become complicated The primary reason for confusion is because the operating system is actually distributed and sold in multiple editions. Compared to Windows Vista, the lineup of available editions is less complicated, but you can still get tripped [...]
Windows 7 has just launched, although not in the same blaze of publicity Microsoft reserved for its predecessor Vista.
The US giant seems to have learned its lesson after that last operating system was torn apart by users unhappy with the bugs and problems it contained.
This time, they’re letting the product speak for itself, which is [...]
An operating system consists of a lot of files that perform a lot of different functions. And because there is no Linux Corporation to package and distribute the files that make up Linux, the task of getting Linux onto your computer in working order, along with the applications that you are likely to want, has [...]
Windows XP system restore is a great program that monitors all of the changes to your computer. If you make a change to the system registry as one of the hacks, you can always undo the change by reverting to an earlier system restore point. By default,Windows XP creates a restore point once per day. [...]
Why is my computer running slow? Why does it take forever to start up or open programs or browse web pages? These are questions we hear constantly from users.
Thankfully help is at hand. Below are some simple yet effective computer maintenance tasks that can help improve the performance of your computer.
This is a list of keyboard shortcuts in Mozilla Firefox.
