Have you ever thought about a Windows virus being run under Linux using Wine? Well, there's a chance this happens and you probably don't want to risk it!

In this tutorial, you will see how to compile and install wine as another/separate user and only that user can run Wine. So, YOU choose when wine should be running, this avoids viruses being run by other applications without your permission. Of course, this is not "bullet-proof" but this is one more security.
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If you have a Compaq Presario 2100 or Omnibook, or some laptops like this, you can use this program to help you fix the mute key or some other hotkeys. In fact, the program will activate them, then you can assign them to a special task.
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After removing linux or changing a few stuff about your disk partitions. Grub might become unhappy and give you an Error 22 when booting windows.

This is quite easy to fix if you have your windows XP CD.

• Put your cd in, and reboot.
• When asked, hit a key to boot from the cd-rom.
• When you see the screen where it asks if you want to install, recover, or whatever, push R to recover/repair,
• It should ask you what windows you want to recover/repair, usually hit 1 and Enter.
• For the administrator password, if you don't think you have one, just hit Enter
• Then type "fixboot" and hit ENTER
• Type "fixmbr" and hit ENTER
• Type exit
• Remove the CD

In Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and also 8.04.1, when you set up your compose key and you activate the automatic login, the compose key is not set at all everytime you start you computer.

I found a quick and clean fix for this using ~/.gnomerc.

Here's how :
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