Apple’s next OS X, version 10.10 Yosemite, was released to public beta last week. It’s the first time that Apple has invited one million users, ordinary users outside the developer community, to preview their next ...
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This is a short tutorial on setting up file sharing services on CentOS 7. I primarily wanted to document the steps on setting up Apple Filing Protocol (AFP). However, Windows file sharing, aka Server Message Block (SMB), is ...
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It’s Sysadmin Day today. Oh, I see, you don’t know what it’s about? Well, let me tell you. No, seriously, there is really such a day. It’s the most important 24 hours of the whole year to pay tribute to ...
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Speakers are among our many other consumer gadgets that have gone wireless. Even if you put your speakers in a fixed place and run off mains power, Bluetooth wireless connectivity is still useful for streaming music from mobile ...
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Google announced earlier this week that they’re going to warn mobile users about incompatible web pages in their search results. In particular, websites that depend on Flash, which Adobe has discontinued its mobile ...
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Everyone wants to sell services now. Software companies that were once shipping boxed software now prefer to sell you a cloud subscription service. While at one time you could “own” a boxed software package, or at ...
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My home PC server has been installed with CentOS 7. After three years with Ubuntu on this PC, I’ve decided this was a good time to switch back to something I’m more familiar and comfortable with. Although Ubuntu was ...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 was released about one month ago. The community version of that, CentOS, unveiled its version 7 this week. Many enterprise Linux users might perhaps not notice because, well, we like our servers ...
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Mention Lego, and what comes to mind is usually those colourful interlocking plastic bricks that kids play. There are also a great assortment of other parts like gears and figurines. But did you know Lego also sells a line ...
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After downsizing my work desk, the next thing I needed was to downsize my monitor too. For the last couple of years, I’ve been using a large display. A huge 27″ Samsung TV served as my monitor. It was spare set, so ...
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