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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 20th, 2006
  • Comments: 19

Why you should switch your parents pc to ubuntu

About a month ago my mother called and asked if I could help her with a problem on her computer that I build and installed for her. The computer reacted slowly to her input and was opening unknown websites for no reason. It was immediately clear that some sort of spyware or even worse virus or trojan was responsible for this behavior. She was really desperate and I began to scan the system immediately.

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Categories: Advice, Linux, Operating Systems, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 29th, 2006
  • Comments: None

Zombie City Tactics

Sometimes it’s the small free games that are more fun to play than the large commercial games. Zombie City Tactics is such a game. It’s about 2 megabytes in size and beats many commercial games in the most important criteria of them all: gameplay. I’m not the only one who thinks that graphics are way overrated when judging games. Sure Gears of War is a nice game, but a really good one ? I don’t think so.

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Categories: Entertainment, Games

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 28th, 2006
  • Comments: None

Win your Wow Burning Crusade Beta Keys

This is a great chance to win one of the much thought after beta keys for the upcoming world of warcraft add-on burning crusade. All that needs to be done is sit in an irc (internet relay chat) channel and be lucky to be randomly selected. They give out keys every 18 minutes for the next 5 days !

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Categories: Entertainment, Games

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 25th, 2006
  • Comments: None

Remove the Advertising in Games like Battlefield 2142

Ingame advertising will become more common in the next years. One of the first games that makes extensive use of ingame advertisement is EA Games Battlefield 2142. Once connected to the server it displays ads in the game that are displayed by a calculation of variables like your geolocation or time you did spend looking at an ad.

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Categories: Entertainment, Games

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 3rd, 2006
  • Comments: 5

How to build a data safe

Would you prefer that important data like information about yourself, account numbers, personal documents and the like are accessible all the time from everyone who has access to your computer or that this data is only available to someone with special access ? I would like to give details on an easy way to store your data safely on your computer without wasting lots of time. It may be safer keeping the data in a safe in your appartement but this is not really practicable.

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Categories: Advice

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 23rd, 2006
  • Comments: 5

Practical Tips to Decrease the Temperature of your Computer

One phenomenon can be observed every year when the summer begins. Many users report problems with their computers who behave strangely or even reboot unexpectedly. If you experienced this once you might already know what is causing this behaviour. Pc components become warmer than usual because the air is hotter which can lead to reboots and even damaged components.

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Categories: Advice

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 24th, 2006
  • Comments: None

Computer Building Price Guide

Are you planning to purchase a new computer in the near future ? You are also someone who builds the computer on his own, someone who does not rely on retail computers that might have parts that are not the quality you demand ? The gotfrag price guide might be a good starting point if you answered both questions with yes.

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Categories: Advice, Hardware

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