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Downloading FTW: torrent setup for a healthy connection

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Have you noticed your Internet connection getting sluggish even while your Speed-tests show no slowdown? Are your VoIP conversations breaking up and becoming unintelligible especially when torrent downloading? If your answer is yes, you might benefit from the following tips.

Cisco Linksys tech support adventures

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Recently, my Linksys VoIP adapter malfunctioned. Here's my adventure in customer support.

Revisiting Ubuntu: new install + annoyances

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I recently had to play a bit with a new installation of Ubuntu and again, old unnerving ghosts came back to haunt me. Since these ghosts have a habit of tormenting indiscriminately, I am sharing my solutions with you.

Investing and Finance: Gold,man, Sucks

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A few years after the first major meltdown of this millennium, the pieces of the puzzle are starting to coalesce into a better understanding of what happened. For better (a select few) or for worse (most of everybody else), Goldman Sachs played a central role in the collapse.

Get to know the Internet, cuz IT knows YOU!

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If you are only figuring out the Internet, Google has a book for you!

ISO conversion and burning: DMG, DAA, MDF, UIF, BIN, NRG

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A question that keeps popping up all over forums is how to convert various proprietary ISO formats into something useful and useable. We shall answer.

DD-WRT on Cisco Linksys WRT610n router

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Although I have purchased my WRT-610n router (pretty much the same as the newer E3000 ) many months ago, only recently was I forced to install the Linux firmware on it – mostly due to lack of time and procrastinating. This is primarily due to some issues with my Internet connectivity, which I am hoping could be solved with a better router.