Friday, April 20, 2012

How to determine / find CUPS version

Simply execute the following command in your Unix machine to determine what version of CUPS running on your system.
# cups-config --version

cups-config is the CUPS program configuration utility. Some of the option available for this utility include:

--api-version: current API version (major.minor).

--cflags: necessary compiler options.

How to delete printer port in Windows

In order to delete TCP/IP printer port in windows systems, follow the following steps:
  1. Open the printers folder - Start, Setting, Printers
  2. Remove the related printers using the printer port
  3. Select "Server Properties" from "File" menu
  4. Select the Ports tab
  5. Delete the related port here.
That's it!

Thursday, April 19, 2012

What laptop to buy

Actually nowadays, majority of new laptops marketed are having sufficient performance to run latest OSs.

But basically i will check:
  1. How much memory it has: nowadays, at least 4GB is needed if you are installing windows 7, for XP, 1GB may be sufficient.
  2. How much hardisk you need. 1TB will be preferred nowadays.

How to disable beep sound in Dell Latitude

  1. Open "Device Manager"
  2. Click on "View"-Menu
  3. Select "Show hidden Devices".
  4. Click on "Non-Plug and Play Drivers".
  5. Right-click on "Beep" and choose "disable".
  6. Reboot your notebook.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Do I need to buy antivirus software for my PC?

It depends.

If you have budget constraint, you may like to try anti virus free software. I have been using AVG Free Anti-Virus software for years. It works really fine so far. Updates are always available. AVG Free Anti-Virus can be downloaded from http://free.avg.com/.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

How to download more than 2 files at a time in Firefox

In Firefox, when you try to download a couple of files at the same time, you might have noticed everything adding up in the download manager but only two files get downloaded from a server at any moment. The process of changing this limitation is pretty simple.

Step 1: Open Firefox and type about:config in the address bar and press 'Enter'

Saturday, March 10, 2012

How to make vmware Mac image run faster

A search on the web give me the following solution to this issue:

1) Set the Guest OS type to Other > Linux
2) Go in the VMWare BIOS at boot time (F2), then disable the floppy and serial ports.

Worth a try, good luck!