Trenchant

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Posts under the 'Tech' Category

Wordpress attachment import/export issue – workaround

I exported the all my wordpress posts here using the Tools – export option. I later tried to import all the posts to my new domain (I shall announce soon). The import was only half successful. Pictures that form an integral part of my posts have been skipped.
And in fact there were errors like:
Remote file [...]

Install Windows-7 on a vista laptop

Ever since Microsoft announced the Windows-7 OS, I was curious and so were millions of Windows users. Well I personally did not like the Vista OS for the primary reason that it simply overloaded the PC. A typical Vista installation treacherously occupies 7GB of space on the hard-drive and demands a minimum of 2GB [...]

What are RSS feeds?

I just added an RSS feed link to my blog. Guests like you could subscribe to the feeds and they would know of all that I update here, without even visiting the blog’s homepage. Isn’t that interesting? Yeah I too thought so. In addition, I got curious to know how these RSS feeds worked. And [...]

Computer virus types; Symptoms & effects of infection; Review on free antivirus, firewall & antispyware

My lil laptop caught cold!
Etiology (study of disease causation) of common cold says there are over a hundred different kinds of viruses that cause common cold. In addition, that is one reason why one cannot ideally gain immunity to common cold.
My laptop is no super man, so she got one too, a bitter cold.
This [...]

Calculator, Paint missing in windows XP

I suddenly realized that the Games folder, the Calculator and the Paint applications went missing on my Windows XP PC.
The games that come with XP don’t interest me much, but the calculator and paint come very handy when you have some quick math or a screen-shot-edit to do.
This might have happened when the Automatic Updates [...]

XP drivers for Dell XPS m1330

I bought a Dell XPS m1330 laptop. It came with Vista home premium but I have always thought XP was the best MS OS around. It did not take me long to realize I had to install XP on my laptop but at the same time I wanted to retain the Vista that it came [...]

Install XP on your Vista PC

I bought a new Dell laptop (XPS M1330), and it came with Vista. And with Vista, came so much ‘extra’ that I wondered how complicated using a laptop seemed. The glassy glossy look was the only thing that attracted me initially. A week into using the Vista laptop, I thought I bought a bug. I [...]

Internet speed – MBps or Mbps – what's your's?

This blog intends to clarify on one basic myth that is out there about internet connection speeds.
When someone says “I have a 2 em bee pe ess connection, you see!” he probably doesn’t know what it really meant (well, that is the case with most of us!).  Its perhaps hip to be mentioning that you’ve [...]

J2ME – wana try?

Wanted to make a small little application that can keep my yoga practice schedule. Something that can make my phone beep after each of the aasans; in that order. That makes sense, doesn’t it?
Well, its a different argument that I shouldn’t use any time keeping while I practice. I agree. But I need this [...]