Youtube users experience a wide variety of problems and difficulties on the popular video hosting portal. Probably the most common for most users are playback problems while playing Youtube videos. This can be that a youtube video is not loading at all or – and this seems to be more common – that it stops [...]

We are continuing our login problems series with an article on Hotmail login problems. You can read previous login related articles by visiting the posts Facebook Login or Yahoo Mail Login. Hotmail is an online email service by Microsoft, which – like other email services – can be accessed from a website but also from [...]

I received error messages in uTorrent after switching from Windows XP to Windows 7. All uTorrent downloads were showing Error: Access is denied after a few seconds. The temporary solution was to run uTorrent in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode. Several users commented in the thread stating that they did not experience this error messages [...]

I switched to Windows 7 earlier today and have started to install most of the computer programs that I work regularly with. One of the programs was the Bittorrent client uTorrent which caused a strange problem. After configuring the new port forwarding rules it would start downloading and seeding the data as usual but would [...]

Facebook login problems are more common than some users might think they are. The most common type of errors that are encountered by Facebook users are usernames and passwords that are not accepted. Less common are page display problems or other error messages during the login phase. There are a few options for users who [...]

How many times have you had networking issues and not known exactly where to start? With Linux there are so many tools you can choose from. Add to that the choice between console and GUI and you have the making for a rather confusing start. Most new Linux users (and many of those who have [...]

Facebook is currently probably the most popular social networking website on the Internet. With a user base growth of 50 million in the last three months it is without doubt now ranking at the top with its 300 million users. Facebook login problems are as common as those on other websites. This does not only [...]

Here we go again, building upon that rock solid Ubuntu Server installation. If you haven’t already done so, you should read the first article in this series (“Installing Ubuntu Server 9.04“). Once you’ve read that (and followed the steps), you are ready to go for installing one of the easiest to use and most reliable [...]

If your laptop is running Linux you might not be happy with the battery life you are getting. There are numerous reasons for the possible extra drain on your battery. Some of the biggest issues are: Hard drive spin-downs, interrupts, and power management. Figuring out how to make these adjustments to your kernel (or subsystems) [...]

You may have read my series on VirtualBox virtual machine manager. If not, here it is: Installing and configuring VirtualBox for virtual OSes. Installing Windows XP as a virtual machine in VirtualBox. Install Guest Additions for a better VirtualBox experience. A new way of thinking thanks to virtual machines. Although the Guest Additions tool has [...]

Just about fifteen minutes ago I was working on an article for Linux.com when I thought I was going to lose a ton of work. I was writing my last paragraph on a 1,600+ word article (entering the article in their web-based system). I was going back to OpenOffice to copy and paste all of [...]

The installation of Java can terminate on some computer systems with the error message “Error 25099 Unzipping Core Files Failed”. This can happen with the Java online or offline installer. The reason for this error message is not totally clear but there are a few things that users can do to fix it to be [...]