Ubuntu is designed to make it easy to install the latest versions of all of your software. The Update Manager will give you small updates over time, but can also let you automatically upgrade to the latest release of Ubuntu. However, if you’re currently running Ubuntu 10.04, you won’t see an option to automatically download Ubuntu 10.10. This is because Ubuntu 10.04 was the most recent Long Term Support (LTS) edition of Ubuntu....
Whenever a process is created in a Linux system, it is given a new number that identifies it to other applications. This is the process ID, or PID, and it is used throughout the system to manage running processes. How Processes Work In Linux The first process Linux runs is called systemd, which is given PID 0. All other processes are spawn as children of systemd. The first few will usually be low-level Linux stuff that you won’t need to worry about, but further down the tree the system will start launching user-level processes like MySQL and Nginx....
AWS Glue is a managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that is able to process data stored in S3 or DynamoDB and convert it into different formats or schemas for easier use in other services like Athena. Why Use AWS Glue? AWS Glue is intended for people who have too much data to process. Perhaps you have a whole fleet of servers, and each one of them is spitting out log files....
A European Commission is exploring the idea of putting datacenters into orbit, where no one can hear them hum. It’s all part of the Horizon Europe research program and is being led by Thales Alenia Space, a collaboration between European aerospace and defense companies Thales and Leonardo. We’re long used to storing important data in the cloud, like that original picture your friend sent where it looks like he’s holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa....
Note: At this point MC7 Sleep Timer doesn’t work with extenders. If you’re using ClamAV or Panda it may detect this plugin as a virus, we’ve tested it and this is a false positive for these two antivirus apps. Installation and Usage Download and install MC7 Sleep Timer. (See download below) After the installation is finished, you will find MC7 Sleep Timer located in the Media Center Extras Library. Click on the tile to open the timer and configure your settings....
If you use a Media Center remote, you can always start in Live TV mode by pressing the Live TV button. If you don’t have a remote, here’s a quick switch you can use to accomplish the task. If you launch Media Center from a desktop icon, right click on the icon, choose Properties, and click on the Shortcut tab at the top. In the Target box, you should see %windir%\ehome\ehshell....
Expanded View In this example we’ll show you the steps for Control Panel but this will work with the other items on the Start Menu as well. To show Control Panel items in Expanded View in Windows 7 right-click the taskbar and select Properties. Click the Start Menu tab then the Customize button. From the list under Control Panel select Display as a menu then click OK. That’s it! Now when you hover the mouse pointer over Control Panel on the Start Menu, all of the items are displayed as a list in expanded view....
One of the features in Outlook which isn’t talked about much and perhaps underutilized is Notes. Using notes while in Outlook can help you remember important ideas and organize your work. Here we look at using Notes in Outlook 2010 but the feature is available in Office 2002 and up. Using Notes in Outlook 2010 To access the Notes feature in Outlook 2010 click on the Notes button in the Navigation Pane....
Note: User Style Scripts & User Scripts can be added to most browsers but we are using Firefox & the Greasemonkey extension for our example here. Before Here is the standard look for search results at Google…not bad but it really does not stand out that well either. Installing the User Script You may be asking yourself what makes this particular user script different from others. Take a look at the list of goodies that you get access to and you will understand:...
Note: This extension can be especially nice to have for those using Netbook Computers. Setup Here is our example browser before installing the extension with the “Menu, Address, Bookmarks, & Tab Toolbars” showing. After installing the extension and restarting Firefox, you will see the following message window. Select “Yes” to start enjoying that extra screen real-estate. Once we selected “Yes” on the message window, here is how our example browser looked....
Creating these shortcuts isn’t rocket science, but this is a useful tip that we figured we’d share. If you already know how to do this, you can always share it with somebody else. Other potential use cases: If you’re planning a trip to a city and you want to see a number of different sites, you could create a couple of shortcuts for each place you want to visit and put them in a folder—then just hit the icon for the one you want to go to next and get directions no matter where you are....
Installation Adding the extension is quick and easy but you will need to confirm the installation before you can finish adding Local Read Later to Chrome. As soon as the installation has finished you will see your new “Toolbar Button” and a brief extension management message. At this point you will need to go into the options to decide how “Saved Websites” are handled after you click on them in the drop-down list....
What is P2? WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms, and we have looked at many ways you can use WordPress to publish content online. But WordPress can also be a great platform for microblogging, similar to Twitter or group discussion boards. Most default themes are designed around regular blogs, but P2 is a special blog theme designed to transform your site into a communications platform. It’s easy to setup and use, so let’s look at how your group can use P2 to stay in touch....
Windows Live Writer is our favorite tool to create and edit blog posts. It’s free and works great, and the latest beta even looks more stylish with the Office 2010 style ribbon interface. If you use it on a daily basis, though, you may come across some features you’d like it to have. That’s where plugins come in; there are hundreds of plugins that can add all kinds of features to Live Writer....
There’s loads of add-ons that can help you duplicate tabs in Firefox, even copying all of the history to the new tab. What you might not realize, however, is that you can do the same thing without any add-ons. To duplicate a tab, all you need to do is hold down the Ctrl key while dragging the tab to a new spot on your tab bar–you’ll see the little arrow show up, and you can drop the tab there....
When searching for the absolute best smart home speakers of the year, our editors pored through countless products, eventually settling on a bang-up list that included this Google Nest Audio wedged alongside other fantastic contenders. In addition to being the best option with Google Assistant integration, it also has some pretty solid specs under the hood. The Google Nest Audio features two powerful speakers capable of producing big, clear sound....
Options The first thing that you should do once you have the extension installed is to go into the “Options”. Make certain to enable the extension for any websites that you frequently use. If desired you may also change the “popup location/position”. While there are only six websites available at the moment it is our guess that more will be added with further development (based on the Change Log)....
Firefox is one of the best web browsers around, especially if you’re looking for an alternative to Google Chrome. Mozilla is now rolling out even more features, as part of the Firefox 106 update. The most helpful change in Firefox 106 is Firefox View, which aims to make tab management easier, especially if you have a lot of them or use Firefox on multiple devices. Mozilla said in a blog post, “for today’s launch of Firefox View you will see up to 25 of your recently closed tabs within each window of your desktop device....
In this demo, we’re running the first release of Windows 95 (version 4.00.950) in VMware Player 3.0 running on Windows 7 x64. For fun, we ran the 95 upgrade on the 3.1 virtual machine we built last week. Windows 95 So let’s get started. Here’s the first setup screen. For the record, Windows 95 installed in about 15 minutes or less in VMware in our test. Strangely, Windows 95 offered several installation choices....
How Fast is Your CPU? A Note on GHz Based CPU Advertising Paper and flyer based computer advertisements seem to focus only on the speed of the processor in GHz. One could almost call it sneaky sales oil, depending on how much focus there is on the speed of the CPU as a single factor of importance. The truth is, the actual speed of the processor is only a single component of the overall CPU performance....
