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 )

Linux Monitor Processes Primer Tutorial

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Linux (or Unix) servers have a “top” command for monitoring processes. It’s top … chortle, chortle. When you are analyzing performance it can be that a live monitoring of a web server, for instance, might tell you more than a … Continue reading →

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iWeb Primer Tutorial

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Quite a while ago now was into iWeb and its impressively quick methods to construct a five (or so) webpage website. It attracted me with its colour and pizazz. Ended up using iWeb to construct this domain’s landing page, and … Continue reading →

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Windows Text Editor Primer Tutorial

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Many computer users may think that in this day and age a good text editor would not be needed. As a programmer I’d disagree (and largely it will be people dealing with “sort of” non-proprietry text source (programming code) that … Continue reading →

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iPad Primer Tutorial

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Some people like to know as much about a new idea before they try something, as they can. If this is you, and you are curious about iPad tablets (by Apple), but not sure what they are like, you might … Continue reading →

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PHP/HTML/Javascript Password Protect Image Primer Tutorial

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So you’ve seen the title of this blog post, but supposing you were to forget that, and link the concepts below … what would you have thought it was about? HTML/Javascript onerror event for img tag (Image) file permissions at … Continue reading →

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C String Function Timings Primer Tutorial

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You don’t have to use an IDE to do C programming. There is Digital Mars C as an example of that. We have talked about the Xcode command line tools before, that frees the gcc compiler to (also) be a … Continue reading →

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Windows Multitasking Tip Primer Tutorial

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A lot of Windows desktop processing tasks require you to do more than one thing at a time (calling all afficianados of multitasking). Windows (from Microsoft) caters well for people who multitask, and there is a cute keyboard shortcut for … Continue reading →

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Linux Diskutil Primer Tutorial

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Linux (or Unix) is an operating system whose very essence revolves around files. Files are stored on Disks and Volumes and you see this in play when we analyze the diskutil command that we access in a Linux environment on … Continue reading →

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