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I resumed work today to find that my Pc wouldn’t stay on for more than a few minutes, after which it would just freeze. At first I started blaming windows again, and I decided to reinstall the OS (I didnt have any apps on the PC yet, anyway). The install process froze at the filecopy stage (deja-vu, the Windows XP bluescreen post!)

In a rage, I took apart the chassis, intending to remove the offending - or so i thought - harddisk, only to smell burnt-plastic near the processor. The processor isn’t plastic, is it? And the heatsink is made of metal (duh!), so i took a look at the fan. Sure enough, it was the culprit. It had either malfunctioned and got overheated, or something else. I put on the PC again, this time with the cover open,

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Purchasing Genuine Windows Software

Nowadays in my home country (Nigeria), Counterfeiting has become the order of the day most especially Microsoft OEM Software. The counterfeiting has gotten so bad that I could find original Windows software but it would be in a counterfeit CD (Recordable cd’s like Datalife, Sony, and Memorex). And you know that Microsoft could as well lock up your computer if it’s not a genuine version because of the new program they have implemented (Windows Genuine Advantages) which give extra features such as updating, getting security fixes and the rest.

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I am changing my wordpress theme for one of my sites (www.phlameworks.com), because the current one (Mambopress 2.2) is giving me some headaches. It has the best layout, the three-column look I’ve always wanted, but I have the following issues with it

1. Any plugins that depend on the is_single(), is_home() or is_archive() functions of wordpress are hopelessly broken.
2. The fonts are just too small and ugly and painful on the eyes, and the stylesheet is too cluttered up for me to start editing. I am a programmer, not a layout specialist!
3. I am bored with it - the colors were just depressing, I was tired of seeing just black-and-gray that I couldnt change.

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If you ever had to format and reinstall that OLD, OLD PC, i guess you weren’t able to find the drivers, right? Well, usually if you give this job to a “computer engineer”, he won’t want to tell you he can’t (and is not willing to) find the sound, vga, modem etc drivers.

So what happens? He burdens your old PC with windows XP, hoping XP’s expansive driver database and wondrous hardware detection will do the trick. It works, yes, but now your PC is SLOW, because it was “designed for windows 98″ (check the labels/stickers on the pc’s casing). If you challenge him, he’ll tell you “upgrade your computer sir/ma’am. Buy a (outrageously expensive or unaffordable) Pentium III or Pentium 4 PC”.

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I have to develop a client-server application, the connection bandwidth is not very high, the database is MySQL on a Linux server, and I have to use C# for the windows client. I can’t use ADO.NET for obvious reasons, and the MySQL ODBC Connector cannot be relied on for such a congested link. How do I do it? Thank God for XML and Web Services. After struggling with different models for days without success, the idea of using XML-RPC hit me when I saw the w.Bloggar application at work.

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In this article, i want to just give you just a brief explanation of RealPlayer 10.5.
Just a few things you should know about it. Enjoy

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