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How-To Install Windows 7 from a USB Memory Stick


How-To Install Windows 7 from a USB Memory Stick

Installing Windows 7  from a USB Memory Stick (or, a Pen/Thumb Drive) is not only a cakewalk but also blazingly faster than the corresponding DVD install. What you will be needing for this memory-stick-based-install is a 4GB USB Memory stick, since the DVD itself is a 2.8GB approx ISO. Remember, you will be able to…

 How-To   Microsoft   Pragmatism   Windows 7  

By Debjit
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Make Your Own Proxy Site


Make Your Own Proxy Site

↑ Grab this Headline Animator So your college is restricting the sites you can visit? And they have also blocked all the proxy sites you know? What do you do then? Make your own proxy site of course ! You don’t have to be a geekto make a proxy site. Here we are going to…

 How-To   Programming  

By Ricky

Get the Real-IP address of a visitor on your website


We are going to make use of three environment variables of PHP in order to code this simple PHP class that returns the real IP address of a visitor, even when connecting via a proxy. The three PHP environment variables we`ll use are

 How-To   Networks   Pragmatism   Programming   Web Design  

By Debjit

How To access GTalk on Pidgin if GTalk is blocked by your internet service provider


How To access GTalk on Pidgin if GTalk is blocked by your internet service provider

Here is a nice workaround that lets you login to the GoogleTalk clent via Pidgin. Right Click on your Google Account in Pidgin and click on modify. Then select the Advanced tab. In the dialog box that opens, Check the “Force Old (port 5223) SSL” option.

 Articles   How-To   Linux   Tips & Tricks  

By Debjit
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HOW-TO convert DAA files to ISO in Linux?


Direct Access Archive, or DAA, is a proprietary file format developed by powerISO for disk image files. And it is very simple to convert to ISO in linux. You just need an utility called daa2iso.

 How-To   Linux   Pragmatism   Software  

By Debjit

How-To enable root login in Fedora 10 at the Gnome Login / Via GUI


Come Fedora 10 and the Root login at the default GNOME Welcome screen is disabled. So, if you say try to login as user root, you won`t be allowed to login. So, here`s the work-around. 1) Setup SUDO 2) Setup Root Account:

 How-To   Linux   Pragmatism   Troubleshoot  

By Debjit

HOW-TO make “the java plugin” work on Firefox in Fedora 10 / Linux Distro?


↑ Grab this Headline Animator The basic idea behind making any plugin work on a Mozilla based browser is to have the plugin symbolically linked to the plugins directory of Mozilla or Firefox. Fedora 10 already has the Sun JRE (Java Runtime Environment) JRE 1.6.0_07 packed in the box. Now, in order to enable the…

 How-To   Linux  

By Debjit

How-To get Mp3 support for Amarok on Fedora10


Fedora 10 ships with Amarok 1.94. If you install the the amarok-extras-free world package then you may not get your Mp3s to still play. This is because the amarok-extras-free depends on two more packages (dont confuse with dependencies) named: libtunepimp-extras-nonfree and xine-lib-extras-nonfree.

 How-To   Linux  

By Debjit

Disabling Shutdown Via Ctrl-Alt-Del on a Linux box


In this article we will tell you how you can easily disable the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combinations and prevent shutting down of your linux system?

 How-To   Linux   Security  

By Debjit

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