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 and iOS Messages Primer Tutorial

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You have some photos taken with your Camera app on your iPad. You like to save such photos on your MacBook Pro. That is the setting for today’s thoughts in the series of “Mac OS X and iOS Communication” themed … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X and iOS FaceTime Primer Tutorial

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We happen to own a MacBook Pro laptop (circa 2011 … which pans out to be significantly “old” for a later blog post) and an iPad. As you’d expect, there are benefits to having two Apple products like this, and … Continue reading →

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Client Pre-emptive Iframe Crontab Curl Rotated Report Tutorial

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If you look after a web server, especially an Apache one, and you use a tool like cPanel to manage it, you’ll probably have come across a withering number of reporting decisions you can decide to tweak the default parameters … Continue reading →

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Linux Backup via rsync and PHP Exec Tutorial

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PHP, being the server side language that it is, has access to a lot of what its operating system provides as functionality via its exec method. Please don’t think everything will work though, and more elegant things you find happening … Continue reading →

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Linux Remote Backup via rsync Tutorial

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A couple of days ago, with Linux Backup via rsync Primer Tutorial as shown below, we used the Linux command “rsync” backup a local disk to a removable disk on a MacBook Pro laptop using a USB connected Seagate Backup … Continue reading →

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MAMP Virtual Hosting Primer Tutorial

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Yesterday we talked about a Linux idea for backup on a MacBook Pro laptop with our Linux Backup via rsync Primer Tutorial as shown below. Today we are going to talk about virtual hosting on a MAMP Apache local web … Continue reading →

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Linux Backup via rsync Primer Tutorial

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On a Macbook Pro laptop you can use the Mac OS X Time Machine approach to backing up your data, as we talked about with Mac Backup Tutorial. However, a Mac OS X laptop has access to an underlying Linux … Continue reading →

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Windows View Online via Hotmail Primer Tutorial

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We are fans of computer hard disks, but almost conversely, we are also fans of viewing documents online in association with email … what we like to think of as “in midair”. Today I was with a student being sent … Continue reading →

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