Computer Corner

Real-world Computer and Internet Access issues are addressed here.

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Zalman ZM80D Cooler Installed

01 Dec 2005

Here it is. What a beauty! But beware - there were lots of parts and around eight pages of detailed instructions and reminders. It took me ...

Running Apache on Windows

Web Programming 29 Nov 2005

This is nowadays a pretty harmless experience, at least for development purposes. However, there are a few caveats along the way. Getting PHP ...

Handy CSS Templates

Web Programming 29 Nov 2005

Here are some useful CSS-based templates, including a box that is totally fixed to the centre of the window - horizontally and vertically. ...

ZM80D ordered

28 Nov 2005

I finally went ahead and ordered the Zalman silent graphics heatsink. After a bit of research and some help from Froogle, I placed the order ...

Silent Fan for a Graphics Card?

20 Nov 2005

I'm looking for a silent (preferably fanless) heatsink for my X600 pro graphics card. The current fan sounds like a wind turbine, so anything ...

Low Budget PC Core

10 Oct 2005

I need a new motherboard, low-end CPU and power supply. Here's my shopping list at scan: LN9828 Gigabyte GA-K8VT800M uATX, DDR400, Lan ...

RSS List - by keyword

06 Oct 2005

It's called Kebberfegg, and stands for the Keyword-based RSS Feed Generator. Basically it houses a list of keyword-based RSS feeds; you give ...

Scratched CDs

25 Aug 2005

What to do if your precious disc is damaged? The answer may be...toothpaste! I got the idea from Merge Digital after doing a google search ...

Image Processing Resources

Txt2Image 18 Aug 2005

The MathWorks is a highly experienced simulation and modelling company, that also hosts a technical computing community at MathTools.net. It ...

Incompatible TV Card

Upgrading to 64-bit 10 Aug 2005

The TV Tuner card in question is the Compro Videomate DVB-T300, and there are no 64-bit drivers for it. I've emailed Compro USA and the ...

Useful Mozilla Configuration Interface

09 Jul 2005

Want to be able to configure your Mozilla-based browser from one screen and with much more configuration options than is available in the ...

Trojan Horse Warning

09 Jul 2005

The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has just issued the following bulletin: Overview The United States Computer Emergency ...

Budget Laptop

09 Jul 2005

Here's some advice I gave to my brother recently for which budget laptop to buy. I've checked Dell, and configured two to what you'd need ...

Movie Editing

09 Jul 2005

I'm investigating different packages for editing various formats of digital movie file (MPG, AVI and MOV) so that I can crop movies taken on ...

Google Maps API

09 Jul 2005

You may have seen Google Maps, and will probably find it the easiest one of the lot to use. They've really got it sussed with drag-panning, ...

Major Mozilla Flaw revealed

05 Feb 2005

Mozilla browsers (essentially Firefox and Netscape) have a serious flaw in them that allows one website url to appear to be the same as another ...

Upgrading on a Budget

20 Jan 2005

Our family PC is slow and noisy, and can't even run a simple modern game like Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. Consequently I decided to upgrade it, ...