Apple this Wednesday announced a really cool new version of the MacBook Air, plus gave a preview of the next version of OS X, version 10.7 dubbed “Lion.” Despite the update coming near 11 months from now, I’m not eager to upgrade, nor do a plan on doing so.
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October 22, 2010Apple Lion: meh
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October 20, 2010Your Little Printer FriendThe easiest way to cancel a print job is to press the big, red Cancel (or X) button on your printer’s console. The second easiest way is to find the wee li’l printer dude in the Notification Area, open it, and delete the document from the printing queue. But sometimes the li’l printer dude disappears before you can open him.
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October 18, 2010Desktop Linux is DeadThey tried. They gave it their all, but the little penguin isn’t going anywhere on the PC desktop. Mainframes, you betcha! But on the desktop, and in this article at least, the dream of desktop Linux is over. Alas. It’s Happening AgainIn the past week I’ve gotten three of them. Honestly, I thought those days were over.
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October 15, 2010Roll Your Own Windows Recovery DiscYour PC should have come with a Windows disc. The best disc is the installation disc. The next best disc is a recovery disc. The least best disc is no disc at all. Even when you find yourself in that least-best situation, all hope isn’t lost. It’s possible in Windows 7 and in Windows Vista to create a Windows Recovery Disc. In fact, it’s stupidly simple. October 13, 2010Printing a DirectoryThere is no way in any graphical operating system I’ve ever used to print out a list of files in a folder. In the older days, at the command prompt, back when it was called a directory of files and not a folder, the command was simple. But not today! October 12, 2010Free Public Wi-Fi ExplainedA pretty good explanation of what that “Free Public Wi-Fi” thing is, which you may occasionally see when browsing for public wireless networks. It’s not what you think.
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October 11, 2010Binary MondayToday is 10-11-10. That’s a binary number! It’s 2-3-2 in decimal. But if you write the number as 101110 it’s the value 46. That’s ASCII for the period character. Hexadecimal it’s 0x2E. O, I love being a nerd!
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Text Mode Task ManagerHere’s a really nerdy blog post for you: There is a command line version of the Windows Task Manager. Unlike the Task Manager window, with all its graphical fun and folly, the command line task manager is all about business. October 8, 2010What Do You Do With a Second Monitor?I’ve put two monitors to work on my computers since 1988. That’s about how long the technology has existed, but the real question is: Why bother at all? |
