My wife’s laptop contracted the antivirus 2009 spyware. This is a pain to get rid of – there are some good and thorough instructions on the windowsxp/vista blog about how to remove it.
HOWEVER I followed these instructions and found that there is a gateway to let the virus in through the MSN interface when [...]

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I was recently recommended this cool tool for getting stats from your inbox. The product is called xobni (inbox backwards). It works with Microsoft Outlook as a pluggin and is a free download.
It indexes your inbox and then works out statistics like who you email the most (it orders everyone in the inbox) and who [...]

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This is one that stumps a lot of ipod touch users; where is the MAC address on my ipod touch?
Well today I thought I would reveal the solution here so mainly I can just send the url the next time I am asked.
Go to the Settings then select General and then select About and then [...]

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I installed Ubuntu on several Dell Latitude C510/C610 that had been properly wiped and were used but empty. Once I figured out an installation CD that worked the installation went smoothly. After rebooting the computer and typing in the user name and password nothing loaded except a message saying ‘you do not have rights to [...]

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Having just starting using Ubuntu I have been needing to do some basic setup options to put my laptop on the network at the office. We use Mac Address based security and so I needed to find mine for the ethernet card.
Looking through all the administration options to find it was unsuccessful and it was [...]

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I have always thought OpenOffice was a great tool to use – but have been continually frustrated at it saving in the open office format by default, so after some searching and tinkering I found a way to make all the openoffice applications default save into their microsoft equivilent. The best resource I found was [...]

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