Microsoft Moves to Lock Out Linux

Microsoft has announced plans for a security feature in Windows 8 that has the potential to prevent users from installing their own operating systems including Linux.Early versions of Windows 8 do away with the established BIOS > bootloader > OS booting paradigm in favor of something called the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). This booting system has enabled Microsoft to demonstrate machines booting Windows 8 in a respectable-even-for-Linux eight seconds, but it's the security...

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What Is Cloud Computing ?

It's the BUZZWORD on everybody's lips but what does cloud computing actually mean? It's not been an easy term to define and there have been many different attempts to explain what the term means. Cloud companies have been prone, like Alice's White Knight, to define the term in a way that they want it to mean.In some ways it's strange that the term has been so slippery. Millions of us are happy to use such cloud-based services as Facebook, Gmail and Twitter, thinking nothing of it, yet...

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Installing Mac OS X on a Normal PC / Non Apple PC

The news is not new, but nowadays a lot of tutorials about how to install Apple’s OS X on an x86 computer are available, and the procedure is now followable by (almost) any PC user.I want to remember to everybody that it’s illegal to install and use OS X without a valid licence. I take no responsability for any invalid use of this tutorial.In addiction, please take note that the following procedure may cause a data loss, so do only if you know what are you doing.We’ll see how to install OS X...

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The Amazing 3MB Operating System

Kolibri desktop is a small 3MB Operating System, which is written entirely in machine code (CPU Language) and is not based on Linux, Windows or any other variants. What is surprising is the number of applications packed into this tiny file size. There are a whole bunch of games, a basic tables editor, a compiler, a text editor, a bouquet of demos, a text based web browser and more. There is also DosBox, which lets you run almost any DOS game on Kolibri. While not meant for serious use, the...

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How to check data usage in BSNL DataOne ?

Many of my friends in India use BSNL DataOne Broad Band connection because it's quite cheap on pocket, but many of them have problem viewing there data usage status.Here is the link to check it :http://10.241.0.195/webLogin.jspJust navigate to the following link and enter your username and password provided to you. You will be displayed few menu options. Click on "Service Records" and check the data usage of the required month.Note : Use Internet Explorer as the browser and if the link above...

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Quick tips to drive traffic to your blog or website

If you started a blog and you want to make some future,you need to concentrate on your traffic in the start,rather than getting your friends to click on the ads.But how to make people come to your website,read it and come again.Analysing and detailing it will take almost a year.Here by im posting some quick tips for the new bloggers.    Content :You post even just one post a day,it should have content which has quality.Its better to have single good post than 10 bad ones.viewers...

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Robots.txt : The most powerful text file on web

"Robots.txt" : You must have heard the name of this text file, if you are a web developer or you have got a little knowledge of search engine optimization. And if you don't know about this, one of the most powerful text files, then read on...Robots.txt is a regular text file, as its extension says, which directs the search engine robots and crawlers while crawling your web pages.It has got a piece of code in a special format, which actually is a set of rules for the web crawlers.The most basic...

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