Things to do after installing Linux Mint on your PC.
The best steps to take after installing Linux Mint on your PC.
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Installing Ubuntu is a lot of fun. Some helpful tips.
Some very useful tips and tricks for using Ubuntu on the desktop.
Read MorePatching Windows 7 in 2022.
If you want to be secure, you should mod your install to get the newest W7 patches. Microsoft tries to limit them to paying businesses, but you can lie to their servers and get them anyways. They are still publishing security only updates in 2022, but it will at least…
Read MoreUbuntu Linux tips and various tricks to master the command-line interface.
Ubuntu Linux tips and tricks for using it on the desktop. The main thing about using Linux is getting it installed is one thing, but getting various hardware working and configured is another. Nvidia drivers are one major stumbling block for willing Ubuntu users. Here is a nice tutorial that…
Read MoreMore very useful Ubuntu tips.
Working with files: Deleting a file in Ubuntu. Deleting a file in Ubuntu is very easy. Just select the file in the file manager and hold SHIFT and press Delete. Uzipping a zip file. Type unzip and then the filename to unzip the file. This will be unpacked into the…
Read MoreWhy Arch Linux?
Aside from the different desktop environments, you’ll run into, the biggest difference is the package manager. Arch’s package manager will let you download whatever you want and push out the latest updates very quickly. Apt, on the other hand, is much more conservative and restrictive. If you want the latest…
Read MoreOne annoying feature in modern Ubuntu distributions.
The only annoying feature in the modern Ubuntu release is the automatic updates, this blocks me when I want to install a package as the package lock is held by the updater. I wish it would pop up a notification or even a small progress bar on the panel in…
Read MoreMicrosoft Windows 10 updates still an embarrassment.
Microsoft have been plagued by many issues regarding the quality control and testing within the organisation. The main problem is that there are different testing teams for each section of the operating system, and this has lead to problems slipping through the cracks into mainstream releases. This has caused a…
Read MoreHow to install updates on various Linux and UNIX distributions.
The MS DOS operating system has quite a lot of command-line arguments that may be used to ease the task of file management. Sure, it is no match for the Linux shell, but the DOS operating system in its time. But then along came the easy to use Linux distributions…
Read MoreSome very useful Fedora 19 yum commands for querying the package database and installing software.
This is how you query the package database to see if a package is installed or not. root@neo homer# yum list installed | grep xterm xterm.x86_64 293-1.fc19 @anacondaroot@neo homer# yum list installed | grep xterm xterm.x86_64 293-1.fc19 @anaconda This is a more verbose way of doing this. root@neo homer# yum…
Read MoreThe Windows 8 operating system forces you to re-boot to install updates.
The Windows 8 operating system forces you to re-boot to install updates. This is 2012; why can the operating system not install updates whilst the operating system is up and running and there is a user logged into the system doing their work? Apparently after 2 days it forces you…
Read MoreUseful Ubuntu Linux commands.
The best way to create a new file with Linux is to use the touch(1) command. The touch command, when used on an existing file will update the file date stamp to the current system date. But if you type touch myfile.txt this will create an empty file named myfile.txt…
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