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Ok, my Nvidia 9500 GT  card   is burned ,  i tried to use  the build in 4500 HD intel  GLX card instead ,

NOTE: The following information has been publicly disclosed on a number of Internet sites, and is not a new find. I’m simply repeating it here for the sake of completeness.

1. Click Restart at the login window
2. While the computer is restarting, hold down “Command-S” until you see text scrolling through the window. This boots the computer into single user mode.
3. At the Localhost% prompt type:

   /sbin/mount -uw /
   /sbin/SystemStarter

   You will then see various services starting up.

4. When the Localhost% prompt reappears, type:

   passwd root

   It will then ask you to type the new root password twice, so do so.

5. After entering the new password, type:

   reboot

At the login window, enter username root wih the new password. Once you are connected, you can use the Multiple Users application (/Applications/Utilities) to change your normal user’s password, or create a new user account.

Many people ask me frequently about the possibility of using USB  flash drive to install there own OS, especially those who have a laptop without a CD/DVD-ROM drive,Not all people want to buy a portable drive ,and using  USB  flash drive to install the operating system is a good choice for them.

Well, the following is the steps for create a bootable USB Flash Drive including all Windows source files,and installing on HP mini 1000 Laptop,(as example)

NetBIOS Hacking,What is it?

NetBIOS Hacking is the art of hacking into someone else’s computer through your computer. NetBIOS stands for “Network Basic Input Output System.” It is a way for a LAN or WAN to share folders, files, drives, and printers.
How can this be of use to me?

Most people don’t even know, but when they’re on a LAN or WAN they could possibly have their entire hard drive shared and not even know. So if we can find a way into the network, their computer is at our disposal.
What do I need? (more…)

Time Stopper is the software which can stop the time for try out version software. When you stop the time you can use your try-out versions forever.

How it Works (more…)

Recently, Gene over at ERACC WEblog Makes an effort to define the ‘free’ in “Free & Open Source Software”.

His main points boil down to :

This is a fact in that one is not required to fork over hard earned money for any FOSS. But there is some cost associated with FOSS and that is the cost of learning to use it. While this is not a monetary cost, it is a cost if one considers one’s time to be of value. We will call this a time cost.

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First of all, this also works if you are using Gaim.
Have you ever been to a place(school, work etc.) where you were unable to use your IM software because of some administrator that blocked it. Well, I have, and I have also found a way around it. I am using Pidgin as my IM program, which supports many different IM protocols.

Here is how you do it:

install tor

Whenever you create a new account in pidgin, go to the “Advanced” tab.

Under “Proxy Options” and “Proxy type”, you choose “SOCKS 5″.

* In the “Host” field type in “127.0.0.1″, and set the “Port” to “9050″.

This should work with most of the IM protocols, although I haven’t tested all of them. The login time will probably also be a while longer than normal, but just be patient

Open your home folder in the file browser, and select View->Show Hidden Files. If you can’t find the .fonts folder, create it.

You can copy any TTF font file into this folder and it will become available immediately to applications after they are restarted. You can get TTF fonts from the Internet, or even a Windows system.

Installing Microsoft Truetype fonts on Ubuntu

You can install the MS core fonts by installing the msttcorefonts package. To do this, enable the “Universe” component of the repositories. This is done by default in Feisty. After you do that, use the following command from the command line:

$sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

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You can browse your system as root

# sudo nautilus

or

sudo nautilus &