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http://www.extremenetbooking.com
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Cool – you’ve used my favourite extreme netbooking image on the home page 🙂Try the instructions in this excellent thread Using your mobile phone as a bluetooth modem.
I have an O2 contract with unlimited web access bolt-on. As other users have pointed out, ‘unlimited’ does not always mean unlimited, but I’ve been using mine since I had my NC10 for Christmas and have not had a problem.
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I thought Ubuntu automatically allocated space for the boot, root and swap partitions if you tell it to ‘overwrite’ another partition or resize an existing?
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You’re probably correct. I’m just too anal to allow anything to do anything automatically on my computers, so I set up my partitions manually 🙂[quote1243339824=jez]
Where did that nick come from? ;)!
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I wondered but didn’t like to ask !lolPerhaps it’s something to so with ice-cream 😕
You will also need to allocate a partition for the Linux Swap File. I have 2 GB RAM and I’ve set mine to 2 GB – others may have a different opinion.
Poor uptodat has not returned to the forum since this thread was started. When he/she does return he/she will be surprised at what he/she started 🙂
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Hmm well the supervisor and user passwords are easy to bypass, just reset the CMOS. I had an issue with the CMOS being reset when I entered standby at one point so it should be possible to do this using software, at worst you take the RAM out and short the CMOS reset pins.As for the HDD password there are some software utilities which can remove it from some drives, for others there’s a piece of hardware which you can use to remove it. You will probably need to remove the drive and place it into another computer, I think it is possible with most hard drives.
EDIT: This looks easy, AFF Repair Station.
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That’s what I feared 🙁[quote1243291792=Alfihar]
Oh and in case anyone is wondering the Windows password is also very easy to bypass/change.
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Too easy to crack – I don’t even bother with a Windows password.[quote1243291792=Alfihar]
These do rely on having physical access to the computer though.
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This is the last line of defence – perhaps we’ll all be reduced to turning off our computers every time we leave them and locking them away in a drawer/office.We just have to accept that if someone is determined enough they can gain access to our data.
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Hmm well the only way to erase the records from the RAM is to turn the computer off for a while, so it shouldn’t matter if you do a clean shutdown or a cold boot. The hardware checks should also be done during startup from a clean shutdown the same as a cold boot.
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But a cold boot actively resets the hardware, which a warm boot doesn’t.Suzi and Ortis built a roller coaster simulator in Suzi’s front room using……yes, you guessed it……
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*A seat from an old Mondeo
*Four rather large springs welded onto a base and attached to the seat
*A subwoofer under the seat to create the rumble in the gut
*A 65″ TV which was actually replaced with a pair of video glasses for that total immersion feeling
*A couple of large fansSimples 😉
Yes it was. As I said – I think the best defence is to turn off your computer at least five minutes before you want to leave it where it could be accessed by a potential attacker. In fact for maximum protection, shut down the computer when you are not present.
I thought I had locked down my NC10 by applying a Supervisor, User and HDD password in the BIOS so I would be interested in knowing how easily these defences are bypassed 😕
I have FF 3.5b4, so maybe that’s why I couldn’t watch the video without downloading it 😕
Oh poor Brian :((
Virgin Media XL package (20 Mbps ) download speed in Llandaff, Cardiff – 20.76 Mbps 🙂
Still waiting for 50 Mbps to be available in Llandaff 🙁
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How do you detect battery wear?
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Battery calibration in the BIOS 🙂
