January 23rd, 2007 by 
kwong I have a DataStor parallel port external hard drive enclosure bought in 1997 and a laptop computer (Pentium MMX 133, 128M RAM) from around 2001.
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January 20th, 2007 by kwong Sometimes it is necessary to impersonate a certain browser type.
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January 19th, 2007 by kwong After I installed FreeBSD 6.2, I found out that my wheeled Microsoft Mouse does not support scrolling any more.
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January 15th, 2007 by kwong By default FreeBSD (in my case, the most recent 6.2 version) installs sh as the standard shell.
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January 9th, 2007 by kwong I read an article linked from http://www.omgili.com/captcha.php on SlashDot that illustrates an alternative way of generating Captcha to prevent spam bot attacks.
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January 5th, 2007 by kwong One of the shortcomings of flash drives is that the read/write cycles are limited and many sources suggest that flash drives are not suitable for frequent reads and writes operations (e.g. using a journaling file system).
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January 4th, 2007 by kwong About half a year ago, I mentioned that I had some problems of running VMWare while using 1701HG Gateway.
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January 2nd, 2007 by kwong So why should you buy an LCD instead of a CRT monitor? Well, an LCD is flat, lighter, more power efficient, and its viewable screen size is the same as the stated size (as opposed to CRT).
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