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Archive for March 25th, 2007

Importing Outlook Express Emails Into Thunderbird And Evolution

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

This tutorial shows how you can import Outlook Express emails, contacts, and account settings into Mozilla Thunderbird and Evolution. This is quite useful if you want to switch from Windows to Linux but don’t want to lose your mails and address book. The procedure should be similar if you use Outlook instead of Outlook Express.

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LinuxMCE

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

LinuxMCE is a free, open source add-on to Ubuntu including a 10′ UI, complete whole-house media solution with pvr + distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available. It is stable, easy to use, and requires no knowledge of Linux and only basic computer skills.
Version 1.0
Media & Entertainment
• 3D alpha-blended GUI optimized for displaying [...]

Bill Gates Talk From 1989 Surfaces

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

 
70sstar writes “A 1-1/2 hour recording of Bill Gates addressing a crowd of university students in 1989 was recently found and digitized, and has been circulating in some IRC channels for the past few weeks. The speech has found a permanent home on the web page of the University of Waterloo CS Club, where the [...]

Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring: Here Comes The Spring

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

 
What is the key innovation of Spring? The breakthrough technology presented last January during the Solutions Linux event in Paris: Metisse, an innovative window management technology. Unlike the widely known 3D-accelerated desktops with the “cube” effect and other visual enhancements, Metisse offers an innovative way to manage windows: only the windows move, making the possible [...]

How To Revive An Old PC With Linux

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

 
What do you do with an old computer? Say, a 386-generation PC running Windows 98 that hadn’t been patched in years, with a 20-Gbyte hard drive most likely infected with all manner of viruses, spyware, and other maladjusted programs? Sure, it could go to the landfill, or you might be able to get a tax [...]

13 Applications to Install on Ubuntu running on Slow Computer

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Recently I managed to install Ubuntu on my laptop(IBM Thinkpad Cel 1.4Ghz 256 MB RAM) , which was a very fast machine when I purchased it three and half years back , however things in computers change very fast and now it was a slow moving machine for today’s resource hungry
applications . Now Ubuntu did [...]

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