If you do not want to use the default desktop environment, you can customize it by creating a .Xclients file (X is capital!!!). Do this in the home directory of the user your launching, for the desired desktop environment, making it executable. In order to do this,...

Windows 8.1 Pro looks and acts completely different than Windows 7, Vista, and XP. If you're shopping for the right Office version to match your new computer, you might consider giving Office 2013 a try if you don't already own Office 2010. If you own Office 2010, you...

Mountain View, Ca—March 25, 2014— The Computer History Museum (CHM) announced today that it has, with permission from Microsoft Corporation, made available original source code for two historic programs: MS-DOS, the 1982 "Disk Operating System" for IBM-compatible...

Step 1 - Setup public SSH keys On the local server, generate the public SSH keys with no password: ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -q -P "" cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub This is the public SSH key that can be placed on other hosts to provide no-password required access: ssh-rsa...

I've got multiple email accounts on my domains, as well as gmail accounts, as well as an icloud account and a work account that uses a cloud based exchange server.   In this mix, I have multiple machines - Windows, Linux and OSX all running and accessing the same...

There are two Mac OSX boxes in my household.   I used a different mount point for each OSX Mavericks computer on separate RAID 1 volumes, though I could have used LVM mount points to allow the backup to "grow" nicely. Installing Packages The newer releases of OS X...

I installed wheezy on a couple of new drives, setup for software RAID1, and when I checked the status I showed resync=pending and read-only. cat /proc/mdstat I thought that it might start sync with a reboot, or perhaps after a period of time, but you can force and...