Category Archives: Operating System

An operating system (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs ( Wikipedia )

VB.Net MultiThreading and Procexp Windows Primer Tutorial

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A lot of desktop processing tasks require you to do more than one thing at a time (calling all afficianados of multitasking). You can decide to adopt a supervisory scripting approach, where some scripting language fires off other processes while … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X Activity Monitor and System Preferences Tutorial

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Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of the Activity Monitor and System Preferences in Mac OS X, which are tools to respectively monitor and tailor Mac OS X settings and arrangements for personal use. Activity Monitor … Continue reading →

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Automator in Mac OS X Primer Tutorial

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Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of the Automator in Mac OS X, which is a tool to organize the running of your Mac OS X applications interactively, and can involve the processing of multiple actions … Continue reading →

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Windows Task Manager and Control Panel Primer Tutorial

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Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of the Task Manager and Control Panel in Windows, which are tools to respectively monitor and /or run applications and tailor windows settings and arrangements for personal use. Windows Task … Continue reading →

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Task Schedular in Windows Primer Tutorial

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Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of the Task Schedular in Windows, which is a tool to organize the running of your Windows applications interactively or unattended, at specified times. Our tutorial shows an interactive task, … Continue reading →

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Operating System Software … The Best Things in Life Are Free … ish

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  Do you like getting the most out of things?   Does waste irk you?   Does water run up hill?   2 out of 3 isn’t bad … continue … Are you sure when you got your laptop/mobile phone/tablet/desktop PC you looked around … Continue reading →

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Windows Command Prompt Via Batch File Primer Tutorial

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Tutorial … Transcript: Do you own a Windows computer? Have you heard of Command Prompt, or MS-DOS, or the DOS prompt? It is like Bash Scripting on Linux or Korn Shell scripting on Unix and could open a whole new … Continue reading →

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Linux Bash Mac Terminal Tutorial

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Tutorial … Transcript: Do you own a Mac laptop or desktop? Have you heard of the application Terminal? It is like Command Prompt in Windows and if you know Bash scripting it can open a whole new world of possibilities … Continue reading →

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