NOAH - Computer Services, Inc. - Forum http://www.noah-inc.net/ Sat, 19 May 2012 14:14:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.noah-inc.net/images/logo.png http://www.noah-inc.net This feed is provided by NOAH - Computer Services. Please click to visit. http://www.noah-inc.net/index.php?option=com_ninjaboard&view=topic&topic=7&Itemid=#p7 The Dell Studio 1536 and several other machines from HP come with a BIOS that gives some trouble regarding assigning resources to USB when using more than 2GB of RAM. [b]Here is the solution for this problem:[/b] [u][b]Open a terminal[/b][/u] [b]Code:[/b] [i]cd /etc/default/[/i] [b]Code:[/b] [i]sudo gedit grub[/i] [i]Include "pci=nocrs" in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""[/i] Save changes and close [b]Code:[/b] [i]sudo update-grub[/i] [b]And then restart the computer[/b] This will give you back the usb ports so you can use your wireless mouse or any usb device. Administrator Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:04:05 +0100 http://www.noah-inc.net/index.php?option=com_ninjaboard&view=topic&topic=6&Itemid=#p6 [b][color=red]Please disregard the following email that seems to come from Intuit. We checked the source and it is not a legitimate email. Please don't click on any link or execute any attached file.[/color][/b] Dear client, NB: Read this up to the end. You will drop access to your account on Intuit homepage without items described below, Because of the growing number of trialsto hack the clients accounts we are doing everything to better the technology of our security system. Thats why you need to do these items to better the security of your computer. Please fulfill all the items of this instruction: Redo your password on your private room at least once a month. Install and upgrade your antivirus always. Do not give login and password from our service to others. Do not install widening to your browser from the unknown producers. Download and install Intuit Secure Software, which guards your browser from viruses created to steal information (usernames, passwords, etc.). Also it will give additional security when working with a private room and your financial information. NB: Beginning with 2 of May 2010 you wont have an access to the services of our organization without an installed Intuit Secure Software. System requirements : Windows XP, Vista, 2000, 2003, Seven Mozilla FireFox 2.0 and above Internet Explorer 6.x, 7.x, 8.x ATTENTION: You will not be able to use our service without update from 2 of May 2010 Download : Intuit Secure Software for Quickbooks Users Intuit Secure Software for Intuit Merchant holders Intuit Secure Software for PayCycle customers Intuit Secure Software for Quicken users Joao Ferreira Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:32:12 +0100 http://www.noah-inc.net/index.php?option=com_ninjaboard&view=topic&topic=5&Itemid=#p5 Lately, I've been noticing stories about how to use Linux you need to know half-a-hundred Linux shell commands and the like. Ah, what century are you from? Today, if you can see a window and handle a mouse, you're ready to use Linux. And no, I'm not talking about how we're all already using Linux in devices like the TiVo or the Droid smartphone and through Linux-powered Web sites like Google. I'm talking about using Linux on the desktop. There is nothing -- I repeat, nothing -- that requires any special knowledge to use Linux on the desktop today. If you've already mastered Windows XP, you'll have little more trouble moving to a Linux desktop like Red Hat's Fedora 12; Novell's openSUSE 11.2; or Canonical's Ubuntu 9.10 than you would in switching over to Windows 7. I'm not saying using Linux isn't different from running Windows. It is. For example, you'll need special software like Crossover Linux to run Windows-specific software. The interfaces also aren't the same -- but then, Windows 7 and Vista's interfaces aren't the same as XP's, and Mac OS X's Aqua interface doesn't look anything like the others. Besides, can any other operating system besides Linux let you set up the interface so that it duplicates XP's look and feel? I think not! What you don't need to use desktop Linux is to learn dozens of obscure Linux shell (aka command line) programs to get work done. Neither do you need to know how to edit configuration files by hand to get Linux set up properly. Sure, it can help to know how to use the Unix/Linux shell. I was writing shell (awk, sed, and grep) scripts to get work done in Unix, and later Linux, before many of you played your first game of solitaire on Windows 1.0. My point is, for ordinary, everyday use, you don't need to know anymore about those things than you need to know how to edit Windows' registry to run Windows. I use desktop Linux every day, and I'm a Linux expert. Do you know how often I turn to a terminal to get to a shell to run commands? Maybe once a month, if that. Between the two major Linux desktop interfaces, KDE and GNOME, Linux has you covered. For applications, many of the most popular applications, such as Firefox and OpenOffice, run just the same on Linux as they do on Windows. For other end-user programs, Linux programs such as Evolution for e-mail and Pidgin for IM are just as good, if not better, than their Windows equivalents. And again, you don't need to know anything special to use them. Installing new software on Linux isn't any trouble either. Better still, major Linux distributors like Ubuntu are continuing to make installing Linux software easier than ever with programs like Ubuntu Software Center. Don't get me wrong: if you're running a Linux server, you really need to know Linux's technical guts. But you know what? If you're running a Windows server, you also need to know Window's version of the shell, the PowerShell. No matter what desktop operating system you're running, if you really want control over exactly what it does, you need to know how to manage its command line tools. But for day-to-day use, Linux's graphical interfaces makes it just as easy to use as Windows or Mac OS X. Pretending that you need to be some kind of computer wizard to run Linux on the desktop today is just downright silly. Administrator Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:13:14 +0100 http://www.noah-inc.net/index.php?option=com_ninjaboard&view=topic&topic=4&Itemid=#p4 Too many Linux enthusiasts continue to tout, "this is the year of Linux on the desktop." I understand that Google's Chrome OS as well as other announcements make it seem like a pending reality. I am quite hopeful myself. But perhaps this is a poor choice of focus if we really care about Linux success. At the very least, it is getting painfully cliché to hear the oft repeated mantra that this is the year of "Linux on the desktop." In perhaps one of the better assessments of whether Linux on the desktop is appropriate, Vincent Danen writes in a recent Tech Republic article that, "it's a rather silly question" and "recent distributions already prove that Linux is more than capable for the desktop." The real reason Linux has not been seen as a desktop solution has very little to do with the quality of the Linux OS or the functionality and look of the desktop interfaces. Instead, I propose that it has everything to do with OEM relationships, vendor lock-in and mass marketing. For instance, today few people have the brashness to ask if Linux is a viable server solution. That would be ridiculous. It would be like asking if Michael Jackson was a singer. The reason is because for years major corporations have been promoting and marketing Linux as a viable solution for server infrastructure. And Linux has shined in that environment. Big names like IBM and HP go out of their way to promote the Linux branding and name. But this simply has not happened in the desktop user environment. If we want to see 2010 as a major movement year for desktop Linux deployments, we need to stop talking about it as if it "has not been ready" but "could now be ready." Putting Linus' opinions regarding development techniques aside for a moment, I find that both Gnome and KDE, as well as XFce, Equinox Desktop Environment, and Enlightenment are all of quality professional standards. Add to them the enhancements of windows managers such as Beryl, and many of these desktop environments exceed the quality and effectiveness of non-Linux counterparts. So why argue whether Linux on the desktop is ready? I submit to you that this question does little more than distract from the reality that Linux as an OS is already uniquely poised. We know that Linux desktop environments have been slow for adoption among vendors and users. People shy away from Linux, even to this day, even with the exceptional quality of available desktops, because: 1. There is an illusion of incompatibility, 2. Microsoft remains the key marketing and relationship master for the desktop. Instead of rehashing the question of desktop viability, I propose we focus our efforts on moving people to OSS applications. This general movement to OSS applications over time resolves that illusion of incompatibility. As people use more OSS applications, barriers Microsoft integrates into their software can actually be used to encourage a movement to Linux. After all, most users don't care what underlying OS they have. I know that may seem sacrilegious to Linux purists, but it is the truth. Instead, most users see the desktop environment as an extension of the OS, and the key factor for their use is whether it has the applications they need/want/love. No one is willing to give up their favorite applications, or key tools, to move to a new environment -- even if it is far superior in quality, stability and cost. People are open to change when presented with a barrier (such as required upgrades or new purchases) and an easier alternative. Get people using OSS consistently and in greater numbers and quickly you will see why the value proposition for remaining with Microsoft Windows diminishes. In fact, there comes a time when proprietary software, with its licensing, registration requirements, and costs will fail to seduce. Over the next year, if we encourage greater OSS application use, Microsoft's own barriers will help to encourage the transition to Linux. But the first step and most important step is to move people to OSS applications. Otherwise, the OEM relationships and the marketing dollars will continue to mock with the idea of Linux on the desktop. We can encourage a movement to Linux since end users keep their favorite OSS while gaining advantages of a non-proprietary OS. Linux becomes an integral rather than an instrumental part of the change we all hope in. Walter V. Koenning is a technology writer and provides insights regarding industry trends. He contributes regularly to the OPINION/EDITORIAL segments on Reallylinux.com and other technology online magazines. This brief opinion piece should not be construed as factual information, and only contains the opinions and personal experiences of the author at the time of publication. Reallylinux.com could not find information in this article that at the time of publication was inaccurate. However, the opinions and personal experiences that have been posted do not express the opinions of Reallylinux.com and are not endorsed in any way. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Microsoft and Microsoft Windows are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation both in the United States and Internationally. All other trademarks or registered trademarks in this opinion piece belong to their respective owners. Administrator Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:06:29 +0100 http://www.noah-inc.net/index.php?option=com_ninjaboard&view=topic&topic=3&Itemid=#p3 The following email is a scam and will infect your computer after you download and execute any of the applications attached to the provided links. Please disregard any email with the following content: Valued Customer. In order to access Intuit after 18 of January 2010, you must have a valid Digital Certificate installed on your Computer. Creating and installing your Intuit digital certificate is a fast and automated process. Knowing with whom you are communicating, it is a basic principle to the security on internet transactions. only encrypt is not enough, as it provides no proof of the identity of the sender of the encrypted information. Without special safeguards, you risk being impersonated online. Digital certificates provide an electronic means for Intuit to verify your identity. Used in conjunction with encryption, digital certificates provide a more complete security solution, assuring the identity of all parties participating in a operation. The Intuit server has its own digital certificate to assure you that you are actually communicating with Intuit and not with an imposer. To generate your own Digital Certificate, you need to download Digital Certificate generation tool. For security reasons, download is available only once. Please download Digital Certificate generation tool direct to your Microsoft Windows PC. It is important to note that: Your Intuit digital certificate is valid for one year. You will be prompted to enter an automatic renewal process 30 days prior to certificate expiration. 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Commerce Center Place, Tucson, AZ 85706 Administrator Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:16:45 +0100 http://www.noah-inc.net/index.php?option=com_ninjaboard&view=topic&topic=2&Itemid=#p2 A while ago people were reporting issues with how Snow Leopard was handling icons, where many files showed only low-resolution icons that resulted in them looking blurred and pixelated. In addition to these, others are reporting problems with Snow Leopard either taking a long time to load icons when scrolling through Finder windows, or not loading icons at all. Snow Leopard's management of previews in the Finder's seems to have problems with those that are generated by third-party applications such as Graphic Converter. Many applications will generate icon previews, but if some are outputting in either sizes or formats that Snow Leopard is having a hard time with, it may not load them properly. The prevalence of this problem seems to increase as the number of files on the system with custom previews are increased. When this problem prevents icons from being loaded at all, the system will revert to using only generic application and document icons are displayed for various files. This can happen both directly in Finder windows, but also in other areas where icons are displayed such as the "Open With..." contextual menu. Fixes for this problem have not been permanent, but should at least allow you to load previews and icons for a while until the problem creeps up again. The following suggestions may help: 1. Reload the folder views Using the "View Options" for folders that have this problem, check and uncheck the box labeled "Show icon previews" a couple of times. This should force the Finder to unload and load the icons, and hopefully get them to display properly. 2. Delete .DS_Store files Using a utility like OnyX, try removing the system's .DS_Store files, which hold the per-folder settings for whether or not icon previews should be shown. This will result in custom folder views being reverted to defaults, but when used in conjunction with activating the "Show icon previews" option (above), should refresh the settings for icon previews throughout the Finder. 3. Boot into Safe Mode A number of small caches and settings are checked when you boot into Safe Mode, which may clear problems with how icons are displayed in the Finder. Reboot the computer and hold the shift key to get into safe mode, from where you might try navigating to the folders with broken icons to see if they're loading properly. 4. Clear other caches with OnyX Using OnyX, Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, or another "maintenance" utility, run a full clean on the system and clear various caches, which upon proper rebuild may not show any errors again. 5. Remove custom icons and previews You can try removing various custom icons and previews from documents using a utility like CocoThumbX, which may help reduce the prevalence of this problem. Overall, while this problem is annoying, it is purely cosmetic and does not affect how affected applications and documents behave. Hopefully Apple will issue an update that addresses this problem, since custom icons and previews greatly appeal to a number of users. I hope this helps anyone with this problem. JP Joao Ferreira Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:12:10 +0100