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  1. brainsoft

    WindowsXP users beware, read inside

    I'll get right to the point, I know this won't apply to all of you, but I know it WILL apply to some of you Read this, it'll explain: http://www.ediction.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=213
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    I need some help setting up WINE in drake 8.1

    I've not had any problems with stuff, until now. I've instaleld Opera, Unzip, an Opera pluggin and am going to instal Ximian shortly, but I can't make sense of WINE. I've installed it without problem, but I can't find the setup/config tool that the site's documentation refers too. I already...
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    Hi everyone, I'm brainsoft

    Most of you know me, some of you newer folk may not though. I, along with Sin2, founded XiBase, over a year ago. I didn't pay for it, but I helped build and guide it where I could. Until a few months ago I was still an Administrator and Moderator, but resigned to pursue my schooling. I...
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    WinXP/2K tip of the day #9

    This is true of both WinXP and Win2k, I don't know what else. I've used it once or twice myself. 9) Help is just a directory away! - Tip In windows XP pro at C:\Windows\help - you will find many *.chm files. These are the help files. Just start one up and find what your looking for without...
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    WinALL tip of the day #8

    This is true for all windows machines, hell for all machines, but some people don't realize that you don't need a hub for such a small LAN. ICS is VERY easy to set up, so this is idea for a 2-comp LAN. 8) Wanna network but don't have all the stuff? If you want to network two winXP machines...
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    WinXP tip of the day #7

    Every enjoyed the thought of a new feature, but didn't quite like the way it was implemented. For me, the grouping of multiple common windows, like IE ones, was a nice idea, but it wasn't functional enough for me. Maybe I couldn't appreciate it fully, running at 1600x1200 res, but this tweak...
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    WinXP tip of the day #6

    Little browsing tweak for y'all. My firewall does this for me as well, so I personally didn't notice a difference, but give it a shot for yourself! 6) XP browsing speed up tweak when you connect to a web site your computer sends information back and forth, this is obvious. Some of this...
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    WinXP tip of the day #5

    I know it's been a while, I've been busy. I've been messing around with XP a lot, and have had many driver issues and such. PLUS, everything I download is corrupt,making it exceedingly difficult to download drivers.... Anyways, I'm back and i'll post a few more XP tips, 3 perhaps, tonight...
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    WinXP tip of the day #4

    Here's a bunch of tips and importany information. 1.When setting up the system with tweaks or making changes to the core OS or hardware always be logged in as administrator. Seems that while XP does create an account upon install that has administrator privileges, its not the same as the...
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    WinXP Tip of the Day #3

    This one is good practice for ANY OS. Backup your Fresh install After you complete your clean install and get all your software installed I would recommend that you use something like Drive Image 3 or 4 to do an image of your install partition, then burn the image to CD and keep it. XP is a...
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    WinXP/2k Tip of the Day #2

    Sorry it's late from the other day =) Windows Explorer Tip When launched in Windows Millennium/Win2k/WinXP,Explorer by default will open the "My Documents" folder. Many people prefer the behavior from previous versions of Windows, where Windows Explorer would open and display "My Computer"...
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    XP Tip of the Day #1a and #1b

    Never re-activate after a new installation If you have to reinstall Windows XP you normally will have to re-activate too. Well not anymore. Just copy wpa.dbl after you activated the first time. It is located in the system32 folder. Now if you reinstall Windows XP just copy the file back and...
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    Is anyone interested in XP tips?

    I have a slew in useful XP Tips, many of them apply to Win2k as well. If you guys are interested I'd be glad to post them on a regular basis. I just don't want to waste my time if no one cares.
  14. brainsoft

    Okay, here we go again!

    I've installed and run Linux a few times and I'm a quick study, and I think it's time to give it a more serious thought. Hopefully I'll be installing a distro in the next few days (*crosses fingers*) and get down to setting up VMWare so I can still do stuff I haven't learned in Linux yet...
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    I'm stepping down as moderator

    During the summer, when I thought I'd have tonnes of time to post and moderate, I was never able to come by as often as I liked. Now that school is about to start again, I feel I will have even less time to myself and even less for the website I have spent the last 16 months helping create...
  16. brainsoft

    More History lost: Original Xibase ActiveList coming done

    The original AL is coming done soon. Sam unfortunately never got his cable to take it over, and no regular forum members use it. The members that use the other AL seem to hate this one for being down sometimes, but when theirs goes down they don't blink. Not even when the DB is lost do they...
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    VBR MP3s? I think not! VBR circuitry!

    I don't know if any of you have been over to the Sun site lately, but check out this article. 10 years of research and development had finally come to head with a working prototype. Not only that, it's twice as fast as current cpus. SDR/DDR will mean squat with this new Tech...
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    Fastest CPU on an ABIT BX6?

    What's the fastest CPU that can go on a BX6? Both with or without a slotket, though I assume it'll prolly have to be with a sloket.
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    Revenant?

    Anyone played this game? It didn't do as well as the creators had hoped, unfortuntely for them Fortunately for me though, I picked the game up for less than $9 CAD when I went down the World's Biggest Bookstore, downtown Toronto. RPG, like Nox or D2, but not as good I would assume. I've...
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