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When you’re a cooked in Windows user it can be very hard to make the plunge to Linux, or even to install it on your desktop can be a big step. But now in the new Ubuntu Hardy Heron there’s a cool feature to install a version of Ubuntu on your desktop like a normal every day using Windows program that you can just as easily remove as install.

The installation disk

First of all you need a Ubuntu Hardy Heron installation disk, and because Ubuntu is open source which means it’s frEE like in bEEr you can get it just like that. All you have to do is download the iso (or the Dutch version), burn it with your favourite burning tool to a disk and voila. If even that’s too much work to do you can request a free cd and the Ubuntu community will send to you one.

The installing itself

You just insert the Ubuntu cd into your cd drive while windows is running (just like any other program you install). If your disk drive auto run is on there will be a popup else you just click the cd you just entered. For the windows installation mode you select the install inside windows mode. You can

select several options like drive, installation size, language, username and password. After installation you reboot the system and get a boot menu asking you which operation system you want to boot. If you for some reason don’t like it you can easily remove it through the Windows program list, just like any Windows program.

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When you are Firefox users you surely had a moment when you need to use internet explorer to view a site. Just using SharePoint at work gives you this problem. So you need to close you favourite browser or even worse if you’re working in Linux.

But now there’s a Firefox plug-in that gives you the opportunities to use the internet explorer processor in Firefox. It works pretty easy. You install it just like every other plug-in you use. Then in the bottom right corner there is the Firefox logo saying you’re using the Firefox process engine.

When you click this logo it switches to the internet explorer logo and the site reloads in internet explorer. And no need to panic about other tabs cause it only works in the tabs you choose to use internet explorer on.

If you want to go back to Firefox click the internet explorer logo and it switches back. No more starting up internet explorer or even windows for stupid sites.

Download: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419