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The Inquirer wrote
SINCE WE wrote a yarn about how opening OpenOffice was slower than a Lada full of elephants going uphill, we have had a few tips from our readers as to how to speed it up.

The changes are not difficult and do seem to have an effect. We can’t be certain how much this [...]

Just finnished installing Ubunto Linux 5.10 on my PC.
It is pretty good, I like it.
Since I am a heavy Windows user I will not abandon Windows XP. I have to use it for work, for games, and for cool windows only apps like Feeddemon (RSS reader), Google Earth, etc

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=68905&highlight=vmware+tools

To install the VMWare tools:
Code:
su
apt-get install linux-tree
apt-get [...]

It’s Big

Size does matter, 19″ inches of pure ….. monitor madness
I got my monitor yesterday and the difference from an old 17″ monitor is huge.

Most 19″ and 17″ monitors run at a resolution of 1280×1024 which is a hudge workspace.

The only problems so far, the monitor by default is very bright.
When I play movies I [...]

On May 14, 2005, Stephen Revere said this about the Alien Registration system

Korea’s Immigration Bureau adopted an excellent system to assist foreigners about three years ago. Prior to the implementation of this system it was very difficult, if not impossible, for foreign residents in Korea to properly fill out a document or register online because [...]

Last week some people from Nonghyup came to school.
Nonghyup is a co-operative bank. It is acttually a agriculutural co-operative. Each branch is actually an independent entity. But they co operate for the common good.
Anyway I got a Visa card from them which was very interesting. Two weeks before when I was sending some money [...]

With the recent release of the ever so small, every so scrathable iPod Nano and the new iPod capable of videos I was curious about how much they were ripping us off here in Korea and Australia.
The answer is, not much, unlike our poor cousins in merry old England.

iPod Nano

2gb – 230,000?¨‚Ä?¬ê [...]

My old monitor, a Daewoo 17″ CRT is on the way out. But fear not, a new monitor is on the way.
I will soon buy a BenQ FP91G+ 19″ LCD monitor. It is quite cheap at @380,000 won, which is much cheaper then it’s Ausrtalian price of AUD $560