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..
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 ..
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 ..
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 ..
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 ..
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 ..
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 ..
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 ..
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 ..
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 ..