Installing Fedora on the Aspire One (D255)
Trying to figure out why the Aspire netbook ships with Windows 7 Starter. They could have shaved a little bit off the price by shipping it with linux, Instead of charging extra for a useless OS. They don't need to make us go through the trouble of installing linux on our own. Fortunately installing ...gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
GPG (or PGP) is something that even geeks often have trouble with so I was happy that I had a working installation of gnupg with keys properly setup. Then I needed to decrypt a file while on my newly aquired netbook running Fedora 14. It seems the GPG package on Fedora 14 is different from what I've ...Replacing the display on an HP Nx7400
Blank screen disease is something that plagues not just Macbooks but other computers as well. Recently my uncle's HP Compaq NX 7400 was infected by it. While most of the time blank screen issues can be traced to a software bug, on this occasion it turned out to be a dead LCD. In fact dead LCDs are ...Review of the Aspire One D255
I've been having the Acer Aspire D255 for two weeks and I just love it. Netbooks are often derided as not having enough processing power for anything useful. Most people just use their computers for browsing, email and word processing and for that even a lowly Intel Atom processor has far too much p ...Bank Call Center Security Measures
Dec. 14, 2010, 12:45 p.m. security
Let us for a moment supposed that you got mugged in the parking lot, or that you got wasted and lost both your wallet and the phone. While you are passed out the mugger or the bartender decides to buy 100 grand worth of jewelry using your credit card. Thinking the transaction suspicious the bank ...