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 Dictation Primer Tutorial

The ability to use Dictation to text boxes using Mac OS X has been around awhile, but the means to demonstrate this for you in a tutorial got harder with Mac OS X Mavericks with the demise of an integrated … Continue reading

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Windows Remote Desktop Primer Tutorial

Today’s tutorial regarding Windows Remote Desktop functionality builds on the previous relevant VNC Mac to PC Tutorial as shown below. This time it is more straightforward in that we connect two Windows computers (rather than a Mac and a Windows … Continue reading

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Linux Find and/or Locate Files/Directories Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) servers have two really useful commands which help the user find files and/or directories … locate and find. Doubt there are many people out there who have not mislaid a computer file at some time or other. … Continue reading

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Mac Dictionary Primer Tutorial

Are you ever stuck for a word, or a word with the same meaning as some other word? … you need a dictionary, or a thesaurus. If you are on a Mac laptop, try the desktop application Dictionary, as shown … Continue reading

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Linux Crontab Curl Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) is a command line environment that supports interactive and non-interactive task management. Often non-interactive tasks are known as batch processes, often intended not to rely on any user intervention, unless there is a problem. Today, in this … Continue reading

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MySql on Command Line Primer Tutorial

Today’s tutorial follows up on MySql Stored Procedures Primer Tutorial as shown below, to illustrate that MySql database (and PHP server-side language) are friends of the command line, and you can use all these tools in batch processing, even though … Continue reading

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Java Command Line Arguments Primer Tutorial

If you are writing a batch process and have reached a process part requiring a compiled program (perhaps because this part has some CPU grunt associated with it) you can do a lot worse than use Java and allow user … Continue reading

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Web Server Access Primer Tutorial

When you maintain a Web Server there are lots of tools of use, but just what do you need to run an Apache/PHP/MySql web server? … Who’s smart idea was this? … … sun comes up … … sun goes … Continue reading

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