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Build me a PC part 2

In part 1 of this ‘project’ I described what we wanted to build, a rough budget and what sort of hardware we’d be looking at for the PC that I was building for a friend. This post I will tell you what we ended up with – Amazing how much things change and how budget [...]

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Build me a PC part 1

One of my friends wanted me to build a PC from scratch, with the parts HE wanted (rather than a pre built one). So I thought ‘lets blog it from the very beginning to the end’. The challenge – a decent PC (not for gaming but one with a bit of grunt and the ability [...]

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Easy Firefox profile backup

Want a nice easy way to backup your firefox profile? I discovered one that is much easier to do than the manual method I posted on this webiste a few months ago. It’s call Mozbackup, and is a great piece of open source software. To perform a backup, it’s real easy: Run the program, and [...]

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Move firefox user profile to new computer

I had some issues with my work laptop the other day and all my settings for my applications had been lost. Damn I thought, I’ve lost all my bookmarks and firefox settings. However I had backed up my profile a few days before but wasn’t sure how to move it to my new computer seamlessly. [...]

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PC/Server uptime?

How long has my PC been running for? Often you want to find out as you need to know if your PC or server has rebooted. There are a quite a few software tools out there on the net that can do that for you, but you don’t need them. I’ll show you a couple [...]

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