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Dual Boot Windows 9x with NT or Linux

Installing windows is appealing calm if you know what you are burden, but it can be a undivided confusion if you are still education. Dual booting can have advantages if you have a amusement that base one platform or you want to learn to use a different working structure.

You can position windows NT(Windows 2000 and Windows XP) as part of a dual vessel or multi-boot combination, with windows 9x. It is also workable to run any Microsoft working structure with Linux.

The Requirements for situation up dual-boot structure are relatively nominal compared to a definite vessel. The main disadvantage of dual boot is diskette pause, and depending on whether you will be dual booting windows 9x with windows NT or Microsoft working structure with Linux, you my have to position a minute hard guide or partition the one you are presently with. There are software’s unfilled that you can use if you want to partition your hard guide. The good one is partition special; it tolerates you to construct a minute partition lacking behind your numbers. It is workable to position windows 9x and Windows NT on one partition but in different folders, I wouldn’t advise it to anybody who is still education dual booting.

Choosing the right case structure for your Windows NT can be advantages to users of windows 9x as this will tolerate them access to windows NT partition. Windows NT base both Fat32 and NTFS while windows 9x only base Fat32. Which means 9x can’t read NTFS partitions, so it is adviseed to want the exact case structure deftly, and put under consideration the case structure you want to use.

When you are prepare to position your working structure, it is very important to jump with windows 9x then Windows NT. Your principal partition must be formatted with Fat32. If you’re dual boot is a combination of Microsoft OS and Linux, then I will advise you jump with Microsoft OS, but make persuaded you have a minute partition as Linux is ready to construct its own case structures and partitions.

past to your positionation make persuaded you do help of your records for incase something goes insult. open windows 98 positionation from windows boot CD then track the instruction on the partition, once positionation is undivided, enclosure windows NT or Linux CD and track instruction on the partition, don’t disregard to limited a different partition, this partition will be D: or F: depending on how many guides you have.

You will have to position your software applications on both sides. It is appealing calm to dual boot your working structures, while I personally don’t advise it, as now years we have virtual pc’s that can be worn, and you don’t have to reboot your pc in order to access the other working structure. The good virtual system is Microsoft Virtual PC.

Alfred Moloto is a laptop consultant and possessor of http://www.compuplanet.co.za He can be reached at moloto@compuplanet.co.za

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Toner- The Hidden Cost in Any Printer Purchase

There’s no denying that the cost of versioners is low - unbelievably low, as a affair of verity. You can find call-name photo versioners for under a hundred dollars, and workhorse laser versioners for under two hundred dollars. paint inkjet versioners wait a bargain, early at around a hundred and twenty-five dollars. If you’re not thorough, although, what you hoard in the purchase value of a versioner goes down the drain when you have to buy swapment toner cartridges or ink cartridges.

When deciding which versioner to buy, it pays to conclude the cost per page written. That cost is calculated by the cost of the cartridge you use. Let’s say, for example, that you purchased a black and paintminus Brother Laser imversioner for $150 and an HP paint inkjet versioner for $150. A new unusual utensils Manuverityurer (OEM) toner cartridge for the Brother versioner expenses about sixty-five dollars and will version about 2,500 pages. The black ink cartridge for the HP only expenses about thirty dollars. Great pact, right? No, because the black ink cartridge will only version about 800 pages. The Brother cartridge will give you a cost per page of a little over two-and-a-half cents, while the HP cartridge ups the gamble to three-and-three-quarters cents per page. That may not sound like a lot, but over the course of versioning the equivalent of ten cartons of paper, or 50,000 pages, you’ll pay $625 more for the HP ink than you will for the Brother toner.

But what if you’re not in the promote for a new versioner, and are churning out page after page with the versioner you now own? odds are, you’re paying a premium value for that unusual utensils Manuverityurer LaserJet toner cartridge or inkjet versioner cartridge. A great way to beget down your cost-per-page is to want a minus steep selection to swap your laser toner or inkjet ink. The two slightest costly selections are compatible ink cartridges and re-manuverityured ink cartridges.

Before you snoop to the hyperbole from versioner manuverityurers that say that compatible and remanuverityured cartridges will ruin your versioner or engender mediocre trait written pages, ask manually this: Don’t versioner manuverityurers have an massive monetary stake in making certain you buy their call name versioner cartridges? Of course they do. They promote their versioners at such a low cost correctly because they know that you’ll requisite swapment version cartridges, from which they make massive profits.

Compatible laser toner and ink cartridges are made and sold by companies other than versioner manuverityurers. You can find decent toner and inkjet cartridge promoteers online who take pride in providing goods that rally or exceed the specifications set forwards by versioner manuverityurers. Compatible cartridges will work charge in your versioner, and won’t void your versioner’s warranty. Essentially, they consist of a previously worn casing with all new parts and new toner or ink. likewise, re-manuverityured cartridges are previously worn and refilled with toner or ink, but are rigorously veteran to encertain their trait.

The underside line is that toner is the hidden cost of any versioner purchase. Why pay for your versioner time and again by paying premium values for OEM cartridges when you can hoard up to 76 percent of the cost by trade compatible or re-manuverityured cartridges?

Chris Robertson is an cause of Majon International, one of the worlds MOST admired internet promoteing companies on the web. Learn more about unknown outlay of Toner or Majon’s Computers listing.

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Are Free Printers Really Free?

Working for a distributor of printers and copiers, I have seen an interesting trend. More and more manufacturer’s are “giving away” printers. The most obvious example of these giveaways are Dell and Xerox. One has to wonder, what’s in it for the manufacturer? After all, do you see Apple giving away Ipods or Martin giving away Guitars?

To keep this simple, the answer is giving away printers makes money. Actually it makes A LOT of money for the manufacturer. Lets break this down so you can see what happens here.

You buy a $6,500 Dell server and then you get a “Free Printer” or two for your loyal business. This can be an awesome thing, but because companies are often unaware of how to really evaluate costs, or think it is such a small item, they don’t check what they are doing.

In the Dell example here, let’s say company XYZ gets 3 of these printers (probably the 1720N’s) and say they print 2,500 pages per month… A Dell 1700/1720 cartridge runs most folks about $90. So, you are paying about 1.8 cents per page. ($90/5000pages).

2,500 X $.018(cost per print) X 3 (# of units) X 36 (3 years) = $4,860 in toner costs…

WOW! A free printer in this example is costing $5,000!

Let’s look at an alternative to this.

You could BUY a Kyocera 1030 networked for about $500. Pretty much the same specs.

2,500 X .008 (cost per print) X 3 X 36 = $2,160 + $1,500 for the units…

Total spent = $3,660 compared to $4,860 for the “FREE” printers.

What’s the solution? Basically, the easiest is to make sure you print less than 1500 pages per month on the “FREE” printer, or it will make more sense to buy new printers instead. If you stay under the 1,500 pages, you can beat the manufacturer at their own game!

Jesse Harwell is the owner of two web sites, http://www.laserprintercenter.com and http://www.dotmatrixprinters.info He has been in the printing industry for 10 years and works with small offices to large corporate accounts. He can be reached through his web sites for more information.

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