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Magento

Not feeling like doing anything custom, so I’m setting up Magento for my wife’s new web store. Its PHP, which pains me… but its also Zend. Which is why I picked it over Zen-Cart or X-Cart.
Am installing PHP5 and all the other pre-reqs now. Anyone used Magento?Wow. You have [...]

Excel Problems

I’m taking an online computer class & I’ll admit upfront that I am not very good with Excel. (Obviously…that’s why I’m posting this thread.) I would appreciate any help someone could give me. I’m stuck on an assignment (the hardest & last assignment for the Excel section) for this class & have been beating my [...]

Ordered a New Asus eeePC 900…what OS should i install?

have a 20gb linux eeePC arriving on monday
anybody else out there with an eeePC that could make OS recommendations?
edit: pic added
why?
i mean I really do NOT understand the eeePC fad. I’d much rather get a cheapie notebook.i’m a junkie for toys, i’ve had 5 laptops in the past 6 months
from ibooks to [...]

Going to need to put Ubuntu on my laptop.

I have the cd. Need to dual boot with winxp. Do I just shove it in the laptop and boot it up?
What’s the procedure here? I’ll research it a bit but getting some advice never hurts. Stick it in and be careful installing. Simple enough really.pretty much. it’ll ask where you want [...]

Point-of-sale Recommendations

I’m working with a regional company that has 20 retail locations and is using a cryptic, difficult point-of-sale system. I feel like the current POS system is dated by at least ten years. Writing reports is tedious and syncing with the web requires a lot of ‘hacking.’ Does anyone have experience with [...]

Linux USB External HD ? v.Ubuntu & Kubuntu

So my friend’s computer had Vista and won’t boot now. I’m not sure what exactly is going on but figured it would be best to backup their hard drive before doing anything. I downloaded a Live ISO of Ubuntu and Kubuntu and am trying them out before going over there. In both *Nix flavors I [...]

Does anyone actually LIKE Windows Vista?

I can’t see any positives.. I recently (yesterday) got a new laptop from HP. Its a beast compared to my old computer, yet I really don’t feel like I’ve made an improvement in performance.
My old computer had Windows XP and Ubuntu Fiesty installed
2.8 Ghz Pentium 4
512 [...]

Apple skewered over missing DNS patch

Apple has come under fire for failing to patch the critical Domain Name System (DNS) flaw which prompted a (rest of) industry wide response earlier this month.
For anyone just back from a trip up the Amazon, the discovery of a domain spoofing by security researcher Dan Kaminsky sparked a massive patching effort [...]

Ubuntu Crew: Firefox Font too small?

Just installed Ubuntu for first time. Install went perfect and relatively easy. No problems other than this bug where the Firefox font is so small. Anyone else notice this? When I zoom in/out, it helps, but still not as perfect looking as the regular Firefox on windows/Mac etc. WTF

try installing the microsoft fonts and [...]

need help reviving a dead external

it spins up, it’s recognized as a drive by windows, but i cant explore the contents and every time i try, it freezes. I tried looking at it in disk management, and it shows as healthy, but it has no format any idea what this could be?Strange. I would boot to an Ubuntu Live [...]