Troubleshooting My Gateway Solo 9100 Pentium II 233, 6 gb HD, DVD  
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My Solo 9100 has given me problems ever since I bought it 2 years ago. For the last year its been completely dead, no LEDs, no nothing. Laptop parts can be expensive, proprietary parts can be almost non-existant. In many case one must consider what the price of fixing current equipment is vs. the price of purchasing faster, more capable equipment. more

My First Real Linux Experience

After another frustrating day with one of the most notorious operating systems in the business, Windows NT Server, I was finally ready to give the competition a chance- Linux. I was sick of editing registry values and constantly rebooting NT when something went wrong. One of my biggest grievances against NT is the fact that, to do anything really cool, you need to edit the registry and reboot the machine. This process has never made sense to me. I wanted the ability to change, and then monitor that change, on the fly.

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Need help with your IBM compatible PC?

The Windows98 operating system can slow down to a crawl on any machine short of a Pentium II 200 with 32 meg of RAM. Fortunately there are a number of software fixes that can speed up your computer’s performance. Application performance (programs like MSOffice, Quicken, etc…), as well as, Internet connection time can be tuned to perform much more efficiently.

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