A Safer Place to Be by Chin Wong
Back when I used Windows exclusively, I was acutely aware of the dangers that viruses and worms posed. In fact, one of the first things I did on every computer I used was to install anti-virus software. Now, more than half a year after switching to Linux at home and Mac OS X at the office, I’ve... Because Mac OS X and Linux are both based on Unix, they work on a system of permissions that allow only the administrator—also called the root—to change things on a system. ... Of course, just because an e-mail-attached virus won’t run on a Linux or Mac system doesn’t mean you can’t pass it on...

Does Microsoft have any real competition? by Greg Diehl
Does Microsoft Have any Real Competition? Copyright (c) 2003 Gregory S. Diehl In a word, yes. And I think they are about to get more. Microsoft primarily dominates in operating systems and office productivity software. Windows is going to be the dominant OS for some time. ... For dynamic Web publishing (updating from a database) I seem to see at least as many pages with .jsp (Java Server Pages) or .php (Hypertext Preprocessor) as I do .asp (Active Server Pages, from Microsoft) on the file name. ... Most Web servers are Apache running under Linux, not Microsoft’s Internet Information Server...

Game Cabinets - A Newcomer's Guide by Michael Russell
Game cabinets are basically cabinets that contain low-end computers and are sometimes painted and decorated to look like real retro arcade machines. The computer is hidden inside the cabinet, opening with a lock and key; if the PC needs to be taken out for some reason. ... ;) Now on such a computer, a low-end operating system with low system requirements will do, such as Microsoft Windows 98 or Windows Me, or a minimal distribution of Linux (such as Zenwalk). ... You need emulators as these games do not run natively on Linux or Windows just like double clicking an EXE file (an executable).

Data Recovery / Datenrettung & Securing Data on Computers by Keith George
Data recovery or Datenrettung is the process by which the data is recovered from damaged or inaccessible storage media. Data recovery is done from storage media like CD´s, DVD´s, Floppies, Hard disks, Magnetic tapes etc. There are two reasons due to which the data becomes inaccessible. ... It generally occurs due to power cuts, system crashes etc preventing file system structures from being written resulting in file system being left in an inconsistent state. ... The end result is that the operating system cannot mount the file system.

Did You Ever Want to Completely Erase Everything on Your Computer? by Ken Savage
Did you ever want to erase everything on your computer? This is a program I found that does that for you quickly and easily. Active@ KillDisk is a hard drive eraser and is powerful and compact DOS software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any... If you use FDISK, FORMAT utilities, or DELETE standard operating system command for data removal, there is always a chance to recover deleted data (using undelete file or some data recovery software) and use against the owner’s will.

Life without Windows by Chin Wong
Ubuntu, a user-friendly version of Linux, has been running so nicely on my home PC that I decided to do an experiment. I wrote down a list of tasks I normally do with Windows XP and decided to see how many of them I could do on Linux. Here’s what my list looked like: 1) Write this column; 2)... What do you do with the downloaded file (called a package, in Linux)? ... Where’s the .EXE file? ... For Windows users, downloading and installing new software on Linux can be rather daunting. ... My favorite BitTorrent client, uTorrent, isn’t available on Linux but KTorrent, which works much the...

Configuring NTP On Your Linux Server by David Evans
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) defines a set of algorithms for the dissemination of time across the Internet. The NTP protocol can be used to synchronise the system time on your Linux Server with a highly accurate Internet time reference. This article describes how to configure the Network Time... NTP keys are stored in the ‘ntp.keys' file in the following format: Key-number M Key (The M stands for MD5 encryption), e.g.: 1 M secret 5 M RaBBit 7 M TiMeLy 10 M MYKEY The NTP configuration file ‘ntp.conf' specifies which of the keys are trusted.

Booting Problem in PC by ravi chamria
One fine day you start your PC and get messages that say,”Book Disk failure”. The problem is that the hard disk is detected but the OS does not load. The system may get stuck in the second screen during the booting process or the OS might display an error message and refuse to load. ... For example, you have a system running Windows XP and Linux using Lila as boot loader. ... You can also create a rescue disk for the anti virus tool and scan the system using it. ... If your problem persists, or if you never used a boot loader, than boot into the system from a boot floppy or the Windows...

CD Copier Software by Kent Pinkerton
Many kinds of software are available, which make it possible to customize each copied CD or DVD. For manually operated copiers, software should be installed on the attached computer. But modern copiers have hard discs of their own, so software can be installed on that hard disc. ... Converting a VCD into a DVD not only changes the file extension, but it also enhances the video quality of the program. ... This software not only copies the file onto many CDs at once, but it also changes the format of the files such that it may be copied faster.

Why To Convert Word To PDF - 10 Advantages Of PDF Files by Abby Randal
Since Adobe Systems introduced the PDF format in 1993 it has rapidly become the number one universal document format on the internet. Not without any reasons, as there is a growing demand for such a universal format to allow people to share their ideas and work digitally on the internet. ... The popular PDF format solved this problem by introducing itself as a system-wide universal format: almost anyone on any computer system is able to open a PDF file these days. ... You can simply click a link whenever someone links to a PDF file on a website, and the file will be opened automatically.