Linux is still a great desktop option The Linux desktop operating system is still a good choice for a desktop operating system after all these years. Even though the desktop has changed a bit since the first Linux distribution I ever used; Red Hat Linux 6.2; this is still a good choice for a person … Read more
It is very easy to copy text to a online pastebin from the clipboard with Linux. This post will show you how to do this. The https://0x0.st/ website is a very useful online pastebin. I am going to show how to send text to a pastebin like this. Make sure xclip and curl are installed. … Read more
Some very cool Arma 3 SQF scripting samples Shoot a vehicle or soldier 50,000 feet into the sky. cursorTarget setVelocity [0,0,1000]; hint format["%1 Is flying to space!",name cursorTarget];cursorTarget setVelocity [0,0,1000]; hint format["%1 Is flying to space!",name cursorTarget]; Spawn an AAF support crate in random houses around the HQ. _houseList = getPos _cargo nearObjects ["House",500]; { … Read more
Windows 8.1 has a feature that not many people know about. You can press Win-PrtScr to take a screenshot and save it straight to the hard disk. The screenshots are saved in the Users/Homer/Pictures/Screenshots folder. This is a very useful way to take a screenshot and save it straight to the disk without having to … Read more
The Unity desktop in Ubuntu 13.04 supports a different rendering mode that will increase performance on lower specced machines. To enable this, enter the command below to create an empty file in the /etc/X11/Xsession.d directory. sudo touch /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99force-llvmsudo touch /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99force-llvm Then type sudo vim.tiny /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99force-llvm and enter this text. export UNITY_LOW_GFX_MODE=1export UNITY_LOW_GFX_MODE=1 Then press ESC … Read more
Sometimes you will encounter a program that you have downloaded that comes as a compressed tar.gz file. This is a tar file that is compressed with the gzip program to compress the contents. This usually contains C or C++ source code and the requirements to easily compile the program. Firstly you need to unpack the … Read more
The Windows 8 launch is past and there are stories floating around that the computers running this operating system are polluted with crapware that slows down the machines and provides no real benefit. When I bought my ASUS eePC netbook; it was running Windows XP Professional with the extra ASUS crapware installed that is supposed … Read more
One important skill in computer networking is converting an IP address to binary from decimal. Here is an example. 172.124.64.2 This IP address converts into this binary number. 10101100.01111100.01000000.00000010 The way I find is the easiest with pen and paper is to write down this number sequence. 128 – 64 – 32 – 16 – … Read more
Opening a folder and listing the contents, and not listing certain files. This is the Perl code I was using on my very old Tripod.com website. opendir(DNAME, "$folder") || die "I cannot open the requested directory $folder \n $!"; @dirfiles2 = readdir (DNAME); @dirfiles2 = sort(@dirfiles2); foreach $x2 (@dirfiles2) { if ($x2 eq ".") { … Read more
Comparing database engines is quite complex when you are deciding on which engine to use for managing a database on a desktop machine or a database for a website, although the MySQL engine is the most refined and stable database engine that is available today. Installation is very simple and after the installation it is … Read more