Here I would like to take you through the steps to configuring and securing a router (In this case we will use the WRT54G as an example) for your home or small office setup. 
Securing a router can be very important especially when the wireless function is enabled.  Likely the most important reason is to [...]

Here we’ll go over how to connect, configure and format a SATA I / II hard drive on Linux.  The intent for this drive ultimately was to share the drive through SAMBA between our home PC’s and to hold home movies from the Sony HDR-SR7 camcorder I have.  Ultimately, I will be using this drive [...]

There are plenty of ways to share resources and files between two or more computers.  You could do things like:

Email yourself an attachment.
Use FTP between the two PC’s.
Use SSH between the two computers.
Use sneaker-net: copy the files to Flash Disk, DVD, CD, (gulp) floppy etc. and walk over to the other computer then load [...]

In the not so distant past, there has been an explosion of ISP's on the web which caused the only thing all of them could: dirt cheap hosting.  In fact, the web is virtually flooded with ISP's offering everything imaginable under the sun and space has literally become a door prize.   But what really [...]

Creating Drop Down Menus in MS Word
1) To create a drop down menu in Word, go to the area where you would like your menu to appear:

Cursor is at the top of the page in MS Word 2003
Most people check their page setup but find that everything is set right. What may have happened is that the View settings for the Print Layout somehow got changed to hide any white space between pages. To correct this, go to:

PROBLEM
The network is not present or not started
At some point or other, and for reasons unknown to me at the current time, I couldn’t get into shared files on other workstations on my home installation.  This used to work earlier.  Turned out after numerous trials and errors that the service Client for Microsoft Networks [...]

FCKEditor 2.1 / 2.5 2.6.2 Recently I found myself looking for an editor for posts more powerfull then the standard built in editor that comes with WordPress.  To that end I came up on FCKEditor (NOTE: No, it's not meant to be synonymous after the popular explative.) and so far it has been [...]

PROBLEM
Occassionally, the default MTU (Maximum Transmission Value) value of a NIC card can cause you issues including being unable to view/see many internet sites or cause you issues when setting up your network, to the point where you will see communication popup errors and slowdowns.

Especially true with dual boot systems, sharing files between two different operating systems on a single PC can become a time consuming task.  One thing many new users do when they install a Linux on a different partition of the same machine, is to try to connect to the other operating systems and files [...]