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How do I set up a wireless connection with Linux Mint 7?

Posted on July 24, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I am completely new to Linux and recently created a Live-CD for Mint 7. I am having trouble getting it to even recognize my wireless signal. I know the computer itself can pick up on the signal as Windows still picks it up. I’ve tried going through and putting the info in as a ‘hidden’ wireless signal, but it still won’t let me connect. I spent several hours last night googling to see if I could find the answer that way, but I every site I tried did not offer the results I was looking for. Below are screenshots I’ve taken of exactly what I’m seeing to help anyone willing to help me know exactly what my problem is.

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Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

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Accessing Vista Files – No Access to Any Accounts.?

Posted on July 23, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

A while back, I dropped my laptop from a pretty high distance and it pretty much killed most of the hardware. The hard drive however, somehow survived. Now, I would like to get my data off of my old hard drive, but I am having a bit of trouble…

My old laptop had a fingerprint scanner that I used 99.999% of the time, it became so convenient that I forgot the password to my Vista login. Because of that, there is no way for me to login or find any of my files.

Yes, I have tried the basics, OPHCrack couldn’t get my password, Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista Change Password / Registry Editor / Boot CD didn’t seem to do anything for me, it would tell me that it changed the password or deleted it yet when I restarted, nothing was changed.

Now I am out of ideas…think you can help?

—-Things That May Help You Help Me—-

1. The default “Administrator” account has no password set, I just don’t know how to login to this.
2. I don’t technically need access to Vista, if there is a way for me to grab my files using a live disk of Vista, I will do that, but I know next to nothing about Linux.

Help me out? Thanks.
Edit. I should have mentioned. I am using my hard drive by removing a hard drive from a friends and plugging mine in.

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what is wrong with my live cd of linux mint?

Posted on July 11, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

having some trouble with my live cd of linux mint.
i downloaded the iso image recently, burned it, and for the first few days i used it, it worked fine, albeit with some strange “logical block” messages during booting. but overall it was smooth once up and running.

so this afternoon, i popped my linux mint live cd back in again…and during boot i noticed the cd stopped whirring and whizzing (uncharacteristic, as it usually makes noise) and i saw some even stranger, new error messages like “SQUASHFS error; failed to read cache”
and instead of loading to the desktop, it brought me to an unresponsive gnome desktop login page for mint, where i had to enter a username. and guess what, the mouse didn’t even work anymore.
obvi its some sort glitch that occured in the boot process, anyone know what?

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What linux will boot off of my pen drive? ive been having some trouble?

Posted on June 30, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I tried to put ubuntu 10.8 on my pen drive 3 times. and it says “No OS” at boot. ive done my research and saw that i wasnt the only one with this problem

does anyone know a good linux that will boot off of a pen drive?

Im new to linux, i enjoyed Ubuntu’s live CD tho, but i need a bootable pen drive

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Windows Trouble?

Posted on June 20, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

Im having a little trouble with windows. I just logged on today and it was crashing and lagging and nothing would open. I couldn’t even shutdown the computer without pulling the battery.Right now im on a Live CD of Linux because i cant even open my browser without it crashing. I have went into safe mode and ran spyware tests and virus tests but all i had was spyware and deleted that all (which didn’t help. I have tryed Checking C: for errors but i had no errors.

My specs are:
2.4ghz AMD 64-bit Processer
2GIG of RAM
70GIG HDD
WIndows XP Media Center Edition

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