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AskMisterWizard.com Ethernet and Internet Series CDROM
Twenty Four separate AskMisterWizard.com Movies, covering all of the basics of networking technology, from our "Networking Fundamentals" section, in the highest downloadable resolution in "WMV" format for Microsoft "Windows Media Player", nicely organized on CDROM. Hours and hours of high quality instruction at a discounted price. Shipped directly to you. No downloading necessary! (Note that the free WMV preview that's available below is in the LOWEST available resolution; the CDROM versions look MUCH better.)
Disc: $49.99
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 01 of 27
How I made a “Linux Live Boot/Install CDROM”, featuring the “PcLinuxOS 2008 Minime” distribution, from free software that I was able to download onto my Windows machine from the Internet. I also had to download and install a free Windows utility for burning the resulting Linux file (in “ISO” format) onto a blank, bootable CDROM. More details at www.HowIgotItWorking.com
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 02 of 27
How I used a “PcLinuxOs 2008 Minime” Linux Live boot/install CDROM to test my Windows PC for compatibility with Linux. I was able to run Linux from this CDROM without making any permanent changes to my computer; my hard disk drive and Windows installation went completely unchanged, but I was able to exercise all of the standard features of a simple Linux system within about 5 minutes, and I could use this method for the safest kind of Internet browsing: NOTHING out on the Internet can compromise my hard disk drive if I access it while running from this CDROM….
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 03 of 27
How I used PcLinuxOs from the original, standard “Linux Live” boot CDROM to explore the hardware of my PC and to investigate compatibility before I permanently installed or changed anything
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 04 of 27
How I installed PcLinuxOs 2008 “Minime” inside unused space within the Windows partition of my hard disk drive, preserving Windows and creating a “Dual Boot” system.
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 05 of 27
How I confirmed that my Microsoft Windows system was still intact after I had repartitioned my hard disk drive and inserted a copy of “PcLinuxOs2008 Minime” into free space that had been inside the Windows partition.
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 06 of 27
How I bootstrapped my brand new Linux system from the hard disk drive for the very first time, after installing it from a published, free PcLinuxOs 2008 “Minime” boot/install CDROM
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 07 of 27
How I got free software from Internet-based "Linux Repositories" as I began to enhance and customize my PcLinuxOs 2008 system
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 08 of 27
How I updated my PcLinuxOs2008 system to the latest, greatest version.
By the time I did this work, the PcLinuxOs 2008 Minime install kit that I had downloaded from the Internet was about 6 months out of date. With just a few, automated steps, I was able to get it fully updated. Here’s how…
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 09 of 27
How I installed an external USB CDRW disk drive so that my Linux system could write CDROMs (including bootable CDROMs that I could use to backup and restore my entire PcLinuxOs system when necessary)
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 10 of 27
How I made a backup copy of my entire, customized, fully updated PcLinuxOs2008 system onto a bootable CDROM so that I could bootstrap from and run it whenever I want to make sure my system cannot be corrupted by evil people out on the Internet, and so that I can restore the Linux system on my hard disk drive to this exact state should it ever be necessary in the future
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 11 of 27
How I tested my customized PcLinuxOs 2008 Live CD by bootstrapping from it, confirming optimized support for my hardware-accelerated nVidia display adapter and availability of all of the other applications I had added.
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 12 of 27
How I restored my Linux hard disk drive to the working condition that I had previously preserved on a custom PcLinuxOs 2008 Boot/Install CD, recovering the operating system and all of the additional applications and enhancements I had configured
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 13 of 27
How I added support for “Flash” media content so that I could watch “YouTube” and other media clips from the Internet
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 14 of 27
How I added convenient shortcuts to the taskbar or “panel button” area at the bottom of the KDE desktop displayed by PcLinuxOs so that I could more easily access my most frequently used applications
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 15 of 27
How I found, installed, and configured the Linux-compatible “VLC” media player so I could play music, movies, DVDs, Video CDs, and video clips
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 16 of 27
How I found, installed, and configured the free, open-source “Wine” Windows emulator for Linux on my PcLinuxOs 2008 host so that I could run many programs, games, and simulators that were originally written only for Microsoft “Windows” environments
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 17 of 27
How I used the free, open-source “Wine” emulator to install and run “Aces High”, a combat flight simulation game originally intended only for Microsoft Windows environments, on my PcLinuxOs 2008 machine (a derivative of Mandriva’s 2007 Linux distribution)
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 18 of 27
How I installed and tested a USB joystick through the “KDE” desktop tools of my PcLinuxOs2008 system
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 19 of 27
How I use and configure a modern USB joystick on my Linux host (running PcLinuxOs2008, the “KDE” desktop, and Windows emulation through “Wine”) with the well-known, freely available “Aces High Classic” combat flight simulation game
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 20 of 27
How I found, downloaded, licensed, installed, updated, and configured the commercial “Cedega” emulator for compatibility with high-performance, graphically intensive Windows games and simulators in my Linux environment
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 21 of 27
After I installed the commercial "Cedega" Windows emulator, I used prominent facilities within their management console to check for updates and download several enhanced components
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 22 of 27
How I used “Aces High Classic” (a combat flight simulation game intended for use only in Microsoft Windows environments) to test Cedega’s ability to run high-performance Windows games in a Linux environment
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 23 of 27
How I used a LINUX “Command Shell” to ask Cedega to install “Aces High 2″ (an advanced combat flight simulation game originally written only for Windows environments) on my LINUX host running PcLinuxOs2008
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How I Switched from Windows to PcLinuxOs, Chapter 24 of 27
How I used Cedega’s “Graphical Command Console” to configure the defaults by which it would execute Windows games, intercepting graphics functions and translating them to the best Linux equivalents.
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