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Speed Up a Computer That Is Too Slow

LifeHacker recently ran an article on “How Can I Diagnose and Fix My Slow Computer?”  Mostly it’s pushing a couple of utilities they are fond of, though.  On the other hand, I am testing out one of...

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How To Maintain Your Computer

I like to post tips on troubleshooting and what-not, but the better route to take is to prevent problems from occurring in the first place.  My latest Helium article “How best to service your computer”...

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iOS 7 Tricks: How to Block Idiot Callers

One of my biggest frustrations with cellular service is the severe lack of an easy and free way to block unwanted callers.  I mean, why do I have to pay to block idiots from wasting my minutes?  I...

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Geek Friday: Build You Own Computer — Naked, Of Course

An ILLIAC I chassis on display at University of Illinois Click on image to see larger image Building your own desktop computer need not be difficult.  The hardest part is picking out the parts from...

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Geek Friday: Running Scripts at Startup and Shutdown of Ubuntu, Part 1

AKA, “Why I still hate PulseAudio and how it interferes with ALSA at Startup”. I already posted about removing PulseAudio, but the problem with doing that is that it does weird things to the System...

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Ubuntu Moving Items to Trash From Commandline

I was writing a shell script not long ago, and I wanted to remove files, but I also did not necessarily want to do so permanently.  It seemed like a good idea to move the items into the built-in trash...

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Mellow Monday: 27 Computer Tricks

Can your computer do tricks? (Photo by ThePViana, under CCA-SA Not to be too educational for a Monday, , but what if I were to ask you to share one trick you have learned over the years?...

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Geek Friday: Installing CentOS

[Updated 22 September 2014] I briefly mentioned that I was setting up a VM of Arch to do some testing, but it turns out that it isn’t all that representative of the final environment I want to test....

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Geek Friday: How to Install Windows XP with Arch Linux Encryted With...

I’m already lovin’ my Arch system! So, I’ve been busy, if you cannot tell.  This is part one, since I don’t have time to do the write-up all in one sitting (and I’m not sure if it is beneficial to have...

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Geek Friday: How to Install Windows XP with Arch Linux Encrypted With...

So, to continue on in my saga, I’ve had limited luck with this setup so far. The biggest problem is that hibernation was working with encryption, but now it is not. An update to the kernel,...

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