You unboxed your new home theater AV receiver, ran a spool or two of speaker wire to your speakers, hooked all your devices into your receiver, calibrated your speakers, and finally ran the last HDMI cable from your AV receiver to your TV. Time to watch a DVD. After the movie starts, you notice the… Continue reading Home Theater AV Receiver Listening Modes Defined
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A Samba File Server And Network For Your Home/Small Office
Do I Need A File Server? A file server stores the data from a number of computers in one place. In addition, security is provided through secure access (username and password), with authorized permissions established for controlling usage of a single user, a specific group of users, and anyone else that may or may not… Continue reading A Samba File Server And Network For Your Home/Small Office
Samba Server (File Sharing) Setup
What is Samba? Samba is a fascinating and powerful networking program. Because of its level of complexity and multitude of uses, precisely defining it can be quite a challenge. Here are three definitions found from the software’s developers, at samba.org: “Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to… Continue reading Samba Server (File Sharing) Setup
Keep Your Mac Safe – Part 3 (Preparing for Disaster)
In Part 1 of this series, I discussed ways to keep your Mac safe: Tightening up Java and Flash Player access; some suggestions on anti-virus programs; setup programs for built-in firewalls; and some types of password protection. Part 2, discussed a data encryption program, and some ways to more safely “surf the net”. If you… Continue reading Keep Your Mac Safe – Part 3 (Preparing for Disaster)
Linux and Unix File Permissions
What Do You Mean I Can’t Do This? If this hasn’t happened to you already, it surely will: On your Mac or Linux computer, you attempt to load, save, copy, paste, or delete a file, and you receive a message on your screen that your request has been canceled because you do not have the… Continue reading Linux and Unix File Permissions
Power Mac G5 Desktop: A lot of computer for a few hundred dollars
In 2008, I switched from a Windows driven PC to an Apple computer. I bought an iMac with the 24″ screen. I still have it and it has been a terrific machine. The only thing I have done to it has been to max out the memory to 4 gigs, and keep the operating system… Continue reading Power Mac G5 Desktop: A lot of computer for a few hundred dollars
SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE YOU INSTALL LINUX
Some Background: The Linux operating system kernel was released by Linus Torvalds in 1991. From its inception, the software is very Unix-like, and shares many command line entries with Unix as well. Linux is open source software (basically, this means the source code license allows the user to freely change, improve, and distribute the software).… Continue reading SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE YOU INSTALL LINUX
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