Archive for January, 2007

Jan 25 2007

Preparing to Install Linux, Maybe Dual-boot?

Moving on further in the lessons, we see that to prepare to install Linux on your computer, you need to find your old computer manuals and have them ready, just in case anything goes wrong. The new operating systems in the linux world are made to walk you through the installation so easily that most [...]

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Jan 18 2007

A Warning About Your Computer’s Security

Published by under Encouragement

Sometimes out of the blue, we do get some information that seems important enough to pass on. The piece in the Feature section today came from Fred Miller, the man who persuaded me to change my computer over completely to SUSE, a linux operating system. He keeps very well informed on the news aspect of [...]

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Jan 18 2007

A Teenage Boy Faces Decades in Prison

First go read this news item: ABCnews.go.com/ and, an example of one who was charged with a similar crime finally being absolved: news.zdnet.co.uk/ When you’ve read those, come back to read Fred’s response. What both of these articles confuse is the difference between a PC and an OS (operating system). Just like many people confuse [...]

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Jan 18 2007

Are You Ready to Run a WebMaster Business?

Published by under ACTION TIP

If you’re a webmaster you grow your business by building up your clients’ business sites. In that case you’ll want to know about how to help local businesses get effective sites up. Got Questions? It would benefit you a lot to become an SBI! Certified Webmaster. To do that, take the FREE … Webmaster BUSINESS [...]

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Jan 11 2007

Linux Background Stories (Course notes 1)

On December 14/06 I announced that I was going to start taking some online Linux courses, so I could make sure I covered the missing gaps in what I’ve learned as I went along bumping from one need-to-learn to another. This way I’ll be better prepared to teach others. So here’s where I went this [...]

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Jan 04 2007

Ready to TRY Harder Again

Published by under Encouragement

Usually I wait until I’ve tried something for a while before I start telling you all about it, but right now my head is full of this social bookmarking that I’m just catching on to, so I thought I’d tell you with this “bursting news.” I’ll use the feature article space to tell you about [...]

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Jan 04 2007

Smart Netpreneurs Take Advantage of Social Bookmarking

Have you discovered the new online craze for social bookmarking? Maybe you’re still struggling to figure out how to save your Favourites or Bookmarks in your Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Firefox. That’s a good place to keep your own favourite links, and it is smart to put them in folders and sub-folders so you have [...]

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Jan 04 2007

Protect Yourself When Signing Up

Published by under ACTION TIP

This is related to the above feature article. When you are signing up for these various programs and you are not sure whether they will inundate you with all kinds of extra emails and pressure to buy this, upgrade here, whatever (and BigDaddy does this), I recommend that you use a free but fairly reliable [...]

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