Welcome to Data-drop.com. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is my updated linux install of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon on a dell Inspiron 6400.  Installed is Avant Composting task manager.  Along with Compiz.  Everything runs great and looks awesome.  Here are a couple of [...]

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I found this great website that asks questions of your computer knowledge and suggest a distribution of linux that will work best for you.
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ 

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After posting my article “Helping the Neighbor Surf Porn“, a couple of things came up. Did I fail to educate this guy? I have been servicing this client for 4 years. He is the normal technicians nightmare, I have been working on educating him for at least 3 of the 4 years. [...]

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Last night I went to help out a friend with a computer problem. A little information, about once a month he calls me to tell me his computer has slowed down to an unbearable state. I fully know that it’s probably infested with spyware and viruses. He calls me once a month [...]

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New fonts. Well, not new ones, but even though I don’t like Fedora, I’ve always loved their screen fonts. I put this how-to together on the steps I had to go through to install the fonts.
1. Download Fonts (Get the tar.gz file not the RPM)
2. Then untar them to /.fonts for your [...]

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What is the fate of Linux in the common market place.
As everyone knows Walmart is selling a computer for $199.00 with Linux. Rumor has it they are sold out on the website already. Is this really going to fly with all home users. Linux does take some tinkering. You just cant [...]

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