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 Users and Groups Primer Tutorial

Underpinning a Mac OS X MacBook Pro laptop’s workings is a Linux or Unix-like BSD operating system. This operating system, like a lot of others, uses files that have permissions and ownership. If you have file permissions they are for … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer ActiveX Batch Quiz Primer Tutorial

Hope you don’t find “intellectual exercises” a waste of time? If so, you may need to tune out now, from our HotKey Quiz web application (building on yesterday’s Windows Command Line Batch Quiz Primer Tutorial) discussion below. There are occasions … Continue reading

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Windows Command Line Batch Quiz Primer Tutorial

Readers who found Assembler Primer Tutorial interesting may well be interested in today’s tutorial where we construct a simple quiz made up of questions suiting a hotkey answer on the Windows command line, written in DOS (or Windows Command Line) … Continue reading

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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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