Author : Darcy Bottaro

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When I am on my Mac OS X I keep wanting to use wget to download iso images etc.   Start up a Terminal Copy or type  echo 'alias wget="curl -0" ' >> ~/.bash_profile Restart the Terminal and now you can use wget to download iso images etc. Found the informa..

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Wanted to have more performance with my Mac Mini 2011, Still think Solid State drives are expensive and also I had another spare 500Gb hard drive that was almost a perfect match to the installed hard drive.   You can see my performance now:   So these are the steps it took to get My ..

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I like to see if I can get more out of my Operating Systems. So I always seem to be tweaking them. Here are some things I like to do on Windows 7.  As I found more I like I will add them here.     Network Tweaks   Disable Autotuning Disabling autotuning will help ..

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I had a restore partition on my HP Pavilion dv5 which I didn't want or need to see. I this is what I had to do to hide it. This is suppose to work on Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP   Start > Run > diskpart and hit the enter key. In diskpart ..

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IScsi installation on CentOS 6 This server has a Intel i5 processor with 8G memory. 3ware data raid adapter with 14 - 1TB sata hard drives. The Iscsi server is running VMware Virtual Windows 2008 r2 and it is performing well. Do a minimal Centos 6 server installation. Do all updates on Server # yum ..

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I like to tweak OS's so this is a network performance tweaks I do to Mac OS X 10.7.   Website I found some information. http://xgu.ru/wiki/TCP_tuning http://support.apple.com/downloads/Broadband_Tuner_1_0 http://slaptijack.com/system-administration/mac-os-x-tcp-performance-tuning/   Start up a Terminal window and type information below. $ sudo pico /etc/sysctl.conf and add information below. net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1 #kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=16777216 Max size seems to be 6291456 which is ..

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I want to know if was possible to have my backup server work for MacOSX 10.7.2 Time Machine Backups.   This is what I had to do to make it work.   First netatalk 2.1 that comes with Fedora 14 didn't work for me. So checking on the internet I found out that I need ..

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Tried another OS called Zorin OS 5, I am very surprised. I really like this Operating System, having tested a lot of operating systems and they never totally fill what I need. Now Zorin seems to fill most of my needs. Normally I run in to issues with sound and/or flash issues. When testing Zorin ..

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I wanted to try the i386 setup for the Flash setup is different than x86_64, I also wanted to try the Linux kernel 3.0.0-1-686-pae.   Installing on Acer Aspire Revo mini computer, These are steps I took to get the setup I wanted. Go here to Download Debian Testing net installation. (Saves how much you will ..

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Joli OS works with Jolicloud, Your personal desktop for the cloud. You have heard of cloud computering. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing for more information. I like to think of it as a way for users to always get to their data, any where in the world. Jolicloud is interesting because now your app's background image and more ..

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