I spend a lot of time in the Powershell environment when using Windows, however as I’m using Linux at the moment I’m spending most of my time using the Bash shell. I’d always wondered how, when watching a YouTube video,…
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I spend a lot of time in the Powershell environment when using Windows, however as I’m using Linux at the moment I’m spending most of my time using the Bash shell. I’d always wondered how, when watching a YouTube video,…
In the Linux environment, I have always found the shell dig command really useful as a way of getting a little more domain info than is returned by using a simple ping. If you happen to be using Windows, Resolve-DnsName…
I love my ThinkPads, always have done. The sleek, black, hard matte rubber exterior is a design classic and has the strange futuristic feel of quality and purpose. Open the lid and the attention to detail, ergonomics and technology scream…
With the demise of the TextDrive Lifetime hosting accounts I needed a new home for my blogs and applications. On the forums a few people had mentioned Linode as a new home for my digital stuff, their site looked like…
The end of the road for TextDrive has been on the cards for a number of months. Tickets have gone unanswered, Dean Allen, the saviour of all things TD has been AWOL since the split from Joyent and the entire infrastructure…
My ThinkPad T43p was on the way out, the XP/Fedora dual boot was slowly grinding to a halt and the cooling fan sounded like it was trying to take off, literally. What to do? I still liked the machine, the…
The end of the road for Microsoft Windows and myself could be in sight, just. I’ve been banging keyboards for years, swearing and becoming increasingly frustrated by the Windows experience. For despite what the misleading adverts might suggest, the whole…