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How To Recover From A Hard Drive Crash

January 4, 2011 Daniel Ihonvbere No Comments

So, what if you came into the office one morning and heard some clicking sound coming from your server? That clicking sound could be a near heart-stopper for some or another minor irritation to others depending on how well they have planned for such a situation. It is the tell-tale sign that a hard drive [...]

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Astaro Releases Free Edition for Small Businesses

January 28, 2010 Daniel Ihonvbere No Comments

Astaro Corporation, a leading network security vendor, recently announced the launch of the Essential Firewall edition of its flagship security solution Astaro Security Gateway (ASG), available for free to all organizations worldwide. The Essential Firewall edition is claimed to include all the necessary functionality that all organizations need to secure their networks and operate a [...]

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KDE 4.3.1 Released

September 7, 2009 Daniel Ihonvbere No Comments

The KDE team has released KDE 4.3.1. This is a bugfix release of KDE 4.3 with a few new improvements. So, users of KDE 4.3 or older versions may want to upgrade it to the new release. From the changelog, a few significant bugs were fixed: More than 25 bugs fixed in KMail, KDE’s default [...]

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How to repair a corrupt MBR in Windows Vista

June 14, 2009 Daniel Ihonvbere No Comments

I tinker with Linux a lot and in many cases, have computers that dual-boot with Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003, and Server 2008. What always happens is that sometimes I remove the hard drive containing the Linux partition and the GRUB boot loader. This inevitably leads to the error 5 message – “boot loader not [...]

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Device Manufacturers and the fleecing of consumers

June 13, 2009 webmaster No Comments

I’ve recently had cause to wonder if device manufacturers purposely make sure their devices are of limited use to people who buy their products. A few examples: I recently bought a couple of NAS devices and each one of them failed woefully to do what was advertised. First is what I actually started calling the [...]

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