Good evening, I am somewhat of an odd person in the eyes of my peers. I someone who enjoys using OS X for daily tasks in a Windows dominated environment. Everyone I know uses Windows. Some know what Linux. Some of those know that is more than just for servers. Some also know that Linux …
Tag: Operating Systems
Quickly Resize a HFS+ Partition in Mac OS X
Hi all, Here’s a quick tip if you need to re-size a partition in Mac OS X WITHOUT destroying its data. Usually, you would get the commercial software iPartition – which, by the by won’t let you re-size the disk from which you are booting, you need to create a boot disk and whatever. However, …
Target Me
Hello. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t feel special at all in the vast and somewhat uncontrollable mass that is the Internet. However… I use a small router with OpenWrt as a home gateway and for a while now I have been seeing in my logs that I receive ssh login attempts from all over …
Antivirus Protection And You
Happy New Year everyone! It’s time to give up the dreams of a prolonged vacation and get cracking. I was thinking the other day that a lot of people overestimate the importance of an anti-virus program(let’s call it AV for short). Don’t get me wrong, security is extremely important, for many reasons, no matter who …
Disk Drive Disaster
I imagine there’s a special place in Hell for people who don’t backup their important files. If there is, I am sure they are saving a spot for me :). You probably get tortured by having to recover your drive with nothing but a Windows recovery disk and a few floppies and if you actually …
Windows 7: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship?
Microsoft is making a big marketing push for Windows 7, including the somewhat hilarious Windows house parties(really now?), so I decided to share a bit about my experience with Windows 7 so far. First of all, let me tell you a few things about my history as a Windows user. I started with Windows 95 …
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