Say No To 0870 Numbers

This site lists many well known companies, and their equivalent geographical numbers.

Alternatives listed for 0500, 0800, 0808, 0842, 0843, 0844, 0845, 0870, 0871, 0872 and 0873 numbers.

Link: http://www.saynoto0870.com/

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BurnAware Free 7

BurnAware Free 7

BurnAware is a family of free and affordable easy-to-use disc burning software to create CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs of all types. Home users can easily burn bootable discs, multisession discs, high-quality audio CDs and video DVDs, and image collections. Business users can back up files from their hard drives, extract files and folders from damaged discs or sessions, and burn multiple discs simultaneously.

Link: http://www.burnaware.com/

Samsung NC110 Boot Priority

If you'e having problems recognising a boot device on a Samsung NC110 Notebook (Windows 7) try the following:

During boot up, Press F10 to enter boot device menu, (or you can enter bios by clicking on F2 during boot up)

Click on advanced settings

find "fast bios mode", this is usually set on enabled so you will need to disable this,

Save and exit (F10)

Re-boot machine, press F10 to get into boot device menu, select your USB device or drive and hit enter.

If USB device or drive is not recognised try again but ensure USB device/drive is plugged into the USB port.

Disabling Automatic Wireless Connection in Linux Mint

This action is particularly useful when you are formatting a machine for someone else as the installation is best done with wifi connected, you don't want to hand back the machine with your wifi network set to auto connect.

To disable an automatic wireless connection in Linux Mint

From the network menu page
click on the arrow (->) next to the connected wifi name
click on forget network
accept forget network

Done, the next time you or anyone tries to connect to the same network you will be prompted for a password.