Being that I’ve spent a decent amount of time over the past couple of weeks attempting to get Office 07 to install and run in Ubuntu 8.04, I figure it would be appropriate to start this post with a Q&A session.  This is what I have learned so far, take it for what it’s worth.

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After crying like a baby for a few hours at the prospect of so much lost data and insufficient backups, I decided that maybe there was still hope for recovering my lost data.  As I mentioned, I just recently completed a college course in information forensics.  As part of this course, we learned how to [...]

About two weeks ago, not more than a few days after the end of my Junior year of college, I decided that it was time to do something with my laptop.  My installation of Windows XP Pro was starting to get sluggish and being the impatient type that I can sometimes be; it was beginning [...]

Today while trying to install Ubuntu 7.10 on my Desktop, I received this very humorous error, one which I had never seen before.  Apparently this error has something to do with some driver problems associated with ATI graphics cards (the x1300 in my case).  The only solution that I have found so far is to [...]

Hundreds of computer users sell their used computer systems everyday.  Why?  Well, because computers systems become out-dated…everyday.  Whether it be at a garage sale, on eBay or just to a friend, computers are constantly changing hands.  Sometimes however, users fail to realize that when they sell their old system, they could also be selling a [...]

It’s 7:30AM, you just woke up and realized that you forgot to print out that ten page research paper on the eating habits of bighorn sheep.  You rush over to your computer and one glance at your screen makes your heart sink-you see the dreaded blue screen.  After a few attempted restarts, you find that your [...]

Here is a quick method for switching between Stand By and Hibernations modes on Windows.  The main difference between these modes is power usage.  Hibernate will keep an image stored on your hard drive of everything that was open and running before cutting power completely to the system.  Stand By also kills power to most [...]

WindowsXP Pro and certain implementations of Windows Vista have a fun little feature known as file encryption.  On WindowsXP Pro, this feature is called EFS or Encrypted File System and can be implemented on the file or folder level by right clicking on said file/folder, selecting properties, followed by advanced and selecting “Encrypt contents to [...]

As you may already know, when using Windows XP if you wish to change the password of a user on the system, you will need to know the current password for that user.  This technique is commonly implemented in order to stop people from arbitrarily changing other peoples passwords.  Sometimes, however, this little function can be [...]

In a continuing effort to help people fix some of their own simple computer problems, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about Windows safe mode, how to enter it and how to use it.  Safe mode is a feature of Windows that allows users to enter the operating system without having [...]