You may be wondering why despite your preference settings Firefox 3.5 still keeps in memory the browsing history pages visited way back in the past. This despite settings in Preferences -> Privacy menu.

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Phoenix Technologies (produttore di tutti i BIOS dei computer HP Pavilion) sin dal 2003 parallelamente all’adozione delle specifiche TCG (TrustedComputing Group) ha sviluppato una propria piattaforma compatibile con le specifiche del Trusted Computing. Questa versione prende il nome di  “TrustedCore” ed è presente di default su tutti i portatili  HP Pavilion. (Immediatamente dopo l’accensione del [...]

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Phoenix Technologies (maker of all HP Pavilion’s BIOS) since 2003 along with adhering to TCG (TrustedComputing Group) specifications has developed its own version of Trusted Computing compliant platform. This version is called “TrustedCore” and is default on all the HP Pavilion product line. (Immediately after booting your laptop repeatedly press ESC key and you could [...]

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In GNOME file-roller (Archive Manager) version 2.26 enables you to create password protected archives.
If you would like to use the shell to create those archives here is how:
rar
rar a -hp archive_name.rar folder_or_file_to_compress
7zip
7z a -mhe=on -p archive_name.7z folder_or_file_to_compress

Click here to read how to make self extracting archives.

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updatedb (slocate) is a powerful indexing utility to query whom you can use locate keyword command within a shell, hereafter a note about making it more sensitive to users privacy through editing /etc/updatedb.conf file and PRUNEPATHS= vairable.

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