Installing Ubuntu Linux

I have an old laptop which I rarely use. It had Windows 2000 installed on it. I decided to install a Linux operating system as an experiment. I downloaded Ubuntu Linux 8.04. The download is an ISO image. To convert this to a readable CD I used BurnCDCC. This program is very simple to use [...]

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Upgraded to Firefox 2.0

I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 today. The install was very easy. There were a few plug-ins that I was using in Firefox 1.5 that were incompatible version 2.0 and these were automatically updated the first time I opened 2.0. One of the most noticeable new features is the spell checker. It just underlines words that [...]

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Watching DVD movies on a PC

After I bought my computer I thought I would be able to watch DVD movies without any problems. I put a movie in the DVD drive and selected “play with Windows Media Player”, but then found I lacked some of the necessary software. I was lead to this page and this page on Microsoft’s website. [...]

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