Computer problems

Danah said:
Assalam Alykom

I dunno if this can be posted here in this thread, but did anyone here use two operating systems at the same PC? Did that slow down your system performance?
I would like to have a Linux based OS like Ubuntu or Fedora installed along with windows 7 that I already have now.
I have i5, 2.30 GHz. RAM is 4 GB.....will that be okay with 2 OSs?

Any good links for the steps to do that will be appreciated. I wanna have tried steps, I'm so busy to go around from site to site to find good, clear steps.


Jazakum Allah khair in advance.
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you may find this useful;

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub.html
 
Danah said:
Assalam Alykom

I dunno if this can be posted here in this thread, but did anyone here use two operating systems at the same PC? Did that slow down your system performance?
I would like to have a Linux based OS like Ubuntu or Fedora installed along with windows 7 that I already have now.
I have i5, 2.30 GHz. RAM is 4 GB.....will that be okay with 2 OSs?

Any good links for the steps to do that will be appreciated. I wanna have tried steps, I'm so busy to go around from site to site to find good, clear steps.


Jazakum Allah khair in advance.
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wa'alaikum assalaam,

Have you heard of virtual box? I hear it's good for installing other systems to play with.

https://www.virtualbox.org/
 
and i dont think it's anywhere near as fast as an independently booting multi OS system,

unless you're using the right cpu and s**tloads of ram
 
Abz2000 said:
and i dont think it's anywhere near as fast as an independently booting multi OS system,

unless you're using the right cpu and s**tloads of ram
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She has an i5 with 4GB of ram, which is more than enough.
Better to try out a new OS, rather than formatting and reinstalling everything only to find you don't like it or prefer a different flavour of Linux. Also, being able to access both at the same time will be more comfortable.
Definitely give virtualbox or vmware a try. Great idea from Islamica.
 
Nice observation, didn't read the specs sis Dana posted,
I have been looking into VMware tutorials over the past month and found it can be very useful, especially for making custom OSs in pre-installation environments without having to constantly reboot.
I'm trying to make os discs with programs such as vlc, security essentials, Skype, Firefox/ chrome etc all preinstalled so I can save a good few hundred hours a year spent installing program's, but have only messed with nlite and usb multiboot before,
Will pm you if I get stuck ;)
 
Thank you all for your suggestions and links. I checked my Hard disk condition and found that I forgot to allot hard disk when I bought the laptop few months ago. I tried to do that yesterday but I couldn't find it under the options there, is that becuz I suppose to do that when I firstly got the PC? (I guess that might be the case) becuz I have done that process many times in the past for other PCs that was newly used or just getting formatted, but its not working with my PC now.
Will leaving the hard disk un-partinoned will affect installing another OS?

And how to get the GRUB bootloader? or is it already there?
 
How do you stop Google following you?

I see all these things that I have searched on Google appear as ads on websites I go into.

Jazzakallah khair
 
^^^i also found that as a problem and i also found out hackers can easily get information from the google id :hmm: e.g. mobile no. :hmm:
 
Ar-RaYYan said:
How do you stop Google following you?
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use an ip changer, that way you can be "anywhere in the world" at any given time

hidemyass.com is a useful route too, you can just do your search from there and it will get routed through their constantly changing ip,
it is claimed that it blocks your ip from coming up at the source:
http://hidemyass.com/

here's an example of a result, you'll notice that the website address is gibberish:
http://3.hidemyass.com/ip-4/encoded/Oi8vd3d3LmFiemNvbXB1dGVycy5jb20v

or if you're using firefox, scroogle is apparently a good browser (though the search results look ugly:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scroogle-ssl-search/
 
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i've checked that you can actually delete your googling history from the privacy settings. just log in to gmail id and click on the privacy settings.
 
Abz2000 said:
use an ip changer, that way you can be "anywhere in the world" at any given time

hidemyass.com is a useful route too, you can just do your search from there and it will get routed through their constantly changing ip,
it is claimed that it blocks your ip from coming up at the source:
http://hidemyass.com/

here's an example of a result, you'll notice that the website address is gibberish:
http://3.hidemyass.com/ip-4/encoded/...B1dGVycy5jb20v

or if you're using firefox, scroogle is apparently a good browser (though the search results look ugly:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...le-ssl-search/
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Jazzakallah khair.

Just a couple of more questions; I was searching for an IP changer on Google and some of them you have to pay for it while others are free to download.... How would you know which one are reliable fast and free of virus and ads??

If I use hidemyass.com will I still get the same results on google as I would have done without using this route?

syilla said:
i've checked that you can actually delete your googling history from the privacy settings. just log in to gmail id and click on the privacy settings.
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Do you have to use a gmail id to do this? I'm not sure but someone was telling me ages ago about changing your privacy setting and that way google wouldnt be able to store your searches? :?
 
Ar-RaYYan said:
How do you stop Google following you?

I see all these things that I have searched on Google appear as ads on websites I go into.

Jazzakallah khair
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Usually this is due to cookies. Either delete them or get an add-on.

Did Danah get Ubuntu working in the end?
 
^ I am so busy these days to do it, I got some information I needed from here and I will do it when I get some free time inshaAllah.
 
Ar-RaYYan said:
If I use hidemyass.com will I still get the same results on google as I would have done without using this route?
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apologies for not responding earlier sis, didn't check the thread,
hidemyass.com is a little different in that you have to input the website you want to go to rather than a normal search,
like instead of youtube, you have to put youtube.com

forefox has some free extensions that can change your ip and let you choose different countries' ip addresses which i feel is better than deleting cookies,
because of the fact that google has proven itself to be a spying machine with endless amounts of backup storage, i don't think deleting cookies will help much since you're going through their servers, and the servers can keep a log of your ip along with search histories without having to touch your pc.
you can also find a few free limited ones on cnet.com
but they only give you a few ip choices.

please bear in mind that even remote ips aren't always safe since the spooks can set some up and give them publicity in order to snoop specifically on those who choose privacy,
i came to the decision to just be open about what i say and not anything against the laws of Islam as far as i am able.
another thing you can look at is tor networks, but again, bear in mind that nothing is safe if they control it and own all the bouncer routers since they can log your ip as the first point of contact.

please do not let this make us over paranoid and deter us from speaking the truth, the Prophet's of old didn't have tor networks and had to speak openly, despite some being beheaded, they didn't give a darn.
and the more people get vocal, the less chance of them stifling the "odd few", so let's invite every one to help us speak the truth.
 
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If you want to be annonymous online, try this...

Ultrasurf is a product of Ultrareach Internet Corporation. Originally created to help internet users in China find security and freedom online, Ultrasurf has now become the world's most popular pro-privacy, anti-censorship software, with millions of people using it to bypass firewalls and protect their identity online.

http://www.ultrareach.com/
 
guys i'm stuck!
5 years of picz and docs and lectures and business templates etc all in there,
i need a controller board/ic for a hitachi deskstar 2.0tb p/n 0f12115 hds723020BLA642 3.5" HDD
controller board 0j11434......
i can find the drive itself, or the board for very expensive, but was wondering if any of you know where to get the blown ic from, the boards i found on google from ebay are gone, i need to get this working and any help would be appreciated.
i have circled the ic in question and provided far shots for location,
the chip i need is "XZ", WHICH IS BETWEEN "XY" AND R100:

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AFTER CLEANING:



 
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