For those of you coming from windows backgrounds, the way the linux filesystem is laid out may seem confusing at first glance…. but that is where this article comes in !

The first thing you should know when working with linux, is that everything is treated as either a file or directory. Yeap thats right, even hardware is considered a file by linux, and, speaking of hardware… all your hardware devices are located in the /dev directory, but more on that later.

In windows XP, you would most probably use DVD/CD burning software such as Nero or DeepBurner to make iso images, and software like alcohol 120% or daemon tools to mount the images.

In linux, you can use the commandline to both make and mount iso images.

Windows XP takes a lot of time to start, If you hate waiting like me then you must consider using hibernation option instead of turnoff for a faster startup.
To do this,
1.Hold down the “shift” key in the shutdown dialog to change the “Stand By” to “Hibernate“.
2. Or You can just press H to hibernate [...]

The Windows Experience Rating is sort of like a system performance gauging system that you only find in Vista . While many complain that it’s flawed and unfair at times, there’s a way to fool Vista. Basically, we change the performance figures in the XML that holds the scores for each of the subsystems. To [...]

Using Google For Searching for Cracks, Serials, Ebooks, etc via FTP
Google has some fantastic potential for you to find whatever you are after on the internet.
To search for a book/program/file, perhaps try the following.
Go to Google’s search page and use the following criteria in the search dialog
intitle:index.of? file extension Name of item
e.g. intitle:index.of? chm syngress
This [...]

Open notepad and paste the following code and save the file with .vbs extension, it will create a VBScript File.
It will prompt you for a text, input the text and press ok.”
;copy from here————–
Dim msg, sapi
msg=InputBox(“Enter your text”,”Talk it”)
Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
sapi.Speak msg
;———-to here
Download the .vbs file

As an added security precaution it is possible to clear all data that has been written to the page file so it cannot be retrieved. The downside to this tweak is that it may substantially increase shutdown time depending on the amount of data in the page file.
[Start] –> [Run] –> Type Regedit –> Press [...]

Remove Security Alerts From System Tray Go to Start > Control Panel > Security Center.In the left pane, click the Change the way Security Center alerts me link, located right at the end of the column. In the new window that popsup, uncheck everything.