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Google Shared Stuff

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Nimal

This is just another one from Goolge, and its called 'Google Shared Stuff'… Seems like just another social bookmarking, like Digg, del.icio.us, etc. Its not officially announced yet and still in the days of biginning… Anyway I got a page … Continue reading →

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Windows XP on Ubuntu using VirtualBox

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Nimal

Hi, Problem: I got my Compaq Presario V6211AU, preloaded with Windows Vista Basic. As I have never used a legal version of Windows and this is the first time getting a legal version for me, I decided to stick with … Continue reading →

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Read/Write NTFS partition in Ubuntu

Posted on June 2, 2007 by Nimal

LinWins, Little background of this story: I have installed Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on my laptop this week. And I had whole lot of issues coming around, but I’ll write about those in a later post, and I’ll keep this … Continue reading →

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Advantages Unix-like OS over Windows for virus protection

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Nimal

We being the unfortunate from this part of the world, Sri Lankans; even though we are always very much keen in using a Genuine Windows, which Mr.Bill puts up at Microsoft Corp, USA, as he claims it is THE best … Continue reading →

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