Computer software & security

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This section deals with tips, tricks, instructions, how-tos, guides, tutorials, and a variety of other issues that should be extremely useful and should greatly benefit almost anyone, from a beginner user to an expert. Every single topic presented here has been thoroughly tested and proven to work, no guesswork or assumptions.

Having seriously used computers for almost 20 years or so, I have often had to solve problems that did not have instant solutions or well-documented troubleshooting. I believe that everyone deserves the right to be educated in the best fashion possible. My articles are written in simple, down-to-earth English suitable for any level of expertise.

I never skip or omit a step and I never assume! Everything is accompanied by multiple examples, both in the text form and screenshots.

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Major categories

Articles are sorted by categories. The categories are listed below, including a short description of what each section contains.

Linux guides, tutorials & overviews

In this sub-section, you will find extensive, step-by-step tutorials and reviews to some of the most popular Linux distributions, tips and tricks how to work on the command line, setup and configure your Linux environment, including compilation, installation, drivers, file and printer sharing, network connectivity, security practices, links to popular software, and more.

Windows guides & tutorials

In this sub-section, you will find lots of useful advice for Windows users, including several installation tutorials, links to popular software, comprehensive security guides about web, mail, policies, and more, how to use Windows and Linux together by dual-booting, how to create live bootable Windows CDs, and many other practical ideas.

Virtualization

In this sub-section, you will learn about virtualization software - how to setup and configure multiple operating systems on a single host simultaneously, including recipes like Windows on Linux, Linux on Linux and other combinations, how to share resources between Windows, Linux and other operating systems, how to run DOS applications on modern operating systems, and other innovative tricks. You may also want to refer to the Computer games section to see how virtualization and emulation can help you play games.

Multimedia

This sub-section deals with audio, video, flash, and any other form of digital media content that you may encounter and use on your computers. Here, you will learn how to obtain and play multimedia files, how to obtain the right codecs for them, how to edit the content, including splitting, joining, converting, tagging, streaming, recording, and much more.

Office & documents

This section will teach you how to work with text editors, word processors, document processors, and other software oriented at home and business office work. You will learn about office suites, typesetting languages, tips and tricks to increase your productivity, separation of styles from content, and much more.

Other

In this sub-section, you will learn about software in general: backup and imaging solutions, scientific computing, applied statistical methods in software, router security, browsers and browser add-ons, other operating systems like BSD and Solaris, PDF software, educational software, computer-related rants and humor, and anything else not covered in previous sub-sections. Some of these topics will be branched off into separate sub-categories when the number of relevant posted articles grows enough to merit independence.

All articles are sorted chronologically, with the newest on the top. Some articles exist in more than one category.

Linux

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