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 )

Mac OS X Text to English Speech Primer Tutorial

We’ve got a few new ideas today … Text to English Speech via Mac OS X’s command line say command used by PHP via exec to make say.php (which is useful as a download to a Mac OS X laptop … Continue reading

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Mac Finder Copy Paste Move Rename Tutorial

We’ve said before how similar and similarly useful are the Windows Explorer and Mac (OS X) Finder desktop applications on a desktop or laptop computer, when we presented Mac Finder and Windows Explorer Primer Tutorial all that time ago. So, … Continue reading

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Windows Explorer Copy Paste Move Rename Tutorial

Following a “tagline” of Adobe PDF Reader Primer Tutorial we realized “infilling” was needed. So what’s a “tagline”? Our way of saying that with Blogging you think of a good apt “tag” for a posting, add it in, and follow … Continue reading

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Crontab Web Server Housekeeping Primer Tutorial

We really love to use batch processes and Linux or Unix crontab methods to do things. Guess maybe a lot of people of a certain age … cough, cough … feel quite comfortable around the bigger computer items like web … Continue reading

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Adobe PDF Reader Primer Tutorial

Here’s a common Windows scenario. My student who has this issue uses Windows 10. You want to collate for business purposes or home budgetry organizational purposes the bills from your telco. For a student of mine, these come in in … Continue reading

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Node.js and Node Local Web Server Primer Tutorial

We love PHP for web server work, but readily acknowledge … PHP is losing out, in popularity terms, to frameworks like Node.js (which we introduce to you today with a “Hello World” tutorial, where you’ll see its Javascript (yes, Javascript), … Continue reading

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Windows FTPManager Ftp Client Primer Tutorial

We are always on the lookout for good tools to do with the fundamentals of Web Server maintenance. Our view of what are the essentials for the maintenance of an Apache/PHP/MySql web server (like for the rjmprogramming.com.au domain) are … … Continue reading

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Windows Command Line Batch Filespec Tutorial

To get small desktop jobs with ascii files done on Windows, you may laugh at the suggestion to do it in DOS (or Command Line), but the fact is that you can do an amazing amount of the things you … Continue reading

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