One of the comments on my original post noted that things have changed now. This is what Chris mentioned” The action has changed slightly, or to clarify: Tv should be on but cable box off. Press “cable” button. Press “menu” button. The box needs to be off when the menu button is pressed for “secret” [...]
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I have trying to log into my gmail account for the past half hour and repeatedly getting server errors. Temporary Error (500) We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes. This is the technical information Hide Detailed Technical Info Numeric Code: [...]
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I am sure half the world knows this but I having been using pine at work on the servers. I recently moved from Windows to Fedora 8 as my work-station OS and wanted pine. This is when I came to know that I am supposed to use alpine instead of pine now These are instructions [...]
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I use VNC regularly and for quite a while I struggled with the fact that I could copy from my VNC window to my PC. Finally, I had a breakthrough couple of weeks ago. This is what should work: – logon to your VNC session – open a terminal window (like Xterm) – type ‘vncconfig [...]
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After reading a few blogs and praises of Chrome I decided to give it a try. The one reason was that Firefox, my current browser, seems to take ever increasing amount of memory as the day progress and makes my notebook sluggish. This is my experience with Chrome on a Windows XP notebook. I downloaded [...]
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Last week I posted EU: bundle rival browsers with Windows and argued against the idea. Now, Firefox architect Mike Connor has said he doesnt want his browser to be bundled w/ Windows: “My personal view is that it’s not the right outcome,” he said. “The choice [when installing Windows] would be weird. There’s no good UI [...]
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Sugar Beyond the XO Laptop: Walter Bender on OLPC, Sucrose 0.84, and “Sugar on a Stick”
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Saving Gas: Pneumatic Hybrid Engine Is Much Cheaper Than Electric Hybrids And Almost As Economical Posted using ShareThis
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A couple of interesting tech news from India yesterday. First is the launch of Windows 7 in Indian languages. Microsoft, as a part of its efforts to overcome the language barrier to computing, has showcased a variety of custom made products directed specifically at the vernacular language market – a market that has been largely [...]
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I have read a series of “green” articles in last week or so. The first is my favorite, “Whisky Power! Distillery Unveils Scotch Green Power” and I’ll drink to that We pretty sure that the expression “drunk on power” was never meant to be taken this literally. Recently the Rothes consortium of whisky and scotch [...]
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