How to reformat your computer - News - Bubblews

How to reformat your computer - News - Bubblews: "Reformatting your Windows XP computer will erase everything on your hard drive and reinstall the operating system. To avoid losing your data (documents, pictures, music, etc.), you will want to backup your information prior to reformatting. See the ITS Help Desk Personal Data Backup Support Center for more information. After you have reformatted your computer, you will need to reinstall all of your personal data, as well as any software products you may use (for example, Microsoft Office, iTunes, Symantec AntiVirus, etc.).
Reformatting your Windows XP computer has three main parts:
Reformatting the computer from your operating system CD.
Reinstalling the drivers that came with your computer.
Running Windows Update to reinstall all security updates and patches."

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FASTRA II

FASTRA II: "Is it possible to fit the computing power of a large supercomputer cluster in the tight space of a PC case? In our research on image reconstruction we often have to perform large-scale scientific computations, which can easily take weeks on a normal PC. Last year, the FASTRA project was launched to develop a desktop supercomputer based on gaming hardware. Although highly successful, even FASTRA cannot provide the computational power required for our latest research projects. FASTRA needs a successor, which should be much more powerful, while maintaining the favorable properties of its older brother: green, mobile and inexpensive. For just 6000 euros, you can have 12TFLOPS of computing power at your fingertips."

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Lock your USB Flash Drive Literally - Geek Stuff

Lock your USB Flash Drive Literally - Geek Stuff: "There are a lot of people out there that are concerned about security, and rightfully so. If you care the kind of person that needs to carry around sensitive information on the go why not put all the sensitive information on a USB Flash Drive and then lock it up with the Brando 3 digit combination lock. Pretty cool idea if you ask me."

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How to Recover Data From a Broken Hard Drive

How to Recover Data From a Broken Hard Drive: "f you are reading this article you are probably desperate, but before you panic let me tell you that there is hope, and there is probably more hope than you think…. Even if your hard drive has an internal mechanical malfunction, data can be recovered without having to send the hard drive to a data recovery service. Yes! you heard right, I’m sure you have come across articles that will tell you how to recover data from a damaged partition, you will find a ton of those on the web, but when your hard drive starts malfunctioning none of those articles are going to help you solve your problem, This article will."

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How to Remove Advertisements with Pixelserv on DD-WRT

How to Remove Advertisements with Pixelserv on DD-WRT: "There are numerous ways to block advertisements in your browser, but what if you could block them on the router? Here’s how to use the DD-WRT firmware and deliberate “DNS poisoning” to block ads for every device on your network."

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8 Reasons Why Even Microsoft Agrees the Windows Desktop is a Nightmare — www.howtogeek.com — Readability

8 Reasons Why Even Microsoft Agrees the Windows Desktop is a Nightmare — www.howtogeek.com — Readability: "Let’s be honest: The Windows desktop is a mess. Sure, it’s extremely powerful and has a huge software library, but it’s not a good experience for average people. It’s not even a good experience for geeks, although we tolerate it."

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