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How To Convert a GPT Disk Back to an MS DOS type MBR Label 30 Jul 2013 | 11:34 pm
Here's a real quick HowTo showing how to manage that pesky conversion when you want to convert a GPT disk to an MS DOS label. I wrote this up real quick for my good friend arrozcaldo, and thought tha...
NorthTech Computer Joins the OIN 25 Jul 2013 | 04:52 pm
Today, NorthTech Computer became the latest organization to join the Open Invention Network (OIN). NorthTech, along with IBM, Slackware Linux, Novell, Google, Gentoo, Phillips, Sony, NEC, Texas Instr...
Oh, the Horror! 19 Jul 2013 | 07:18 pm
There really isn't much that one can add to this video that says so much already. Those of us who have been in the IT industry for more than a couple of decades have simply come to accept this paradig...
How To Backup and Restore MySQL and MariaDB Databases the Easy Way! 20 Jun 2013 | 01:31 am
Today is my daugter's birthday. She turned 17 years old. Man how time flies. I've been using Slackware Linux longer than she's even been a glimmer in my eye, and Slackware will soon be twenty years ol...
How to break the 256GB disk barrier on ESXi 4.1 4 May 2013 | 07:06 pm
How to create disks larger than 256GB on ESXi 4.1 Not so long ago, storage wasn't so cheap. I remember when we used to talk about how cheap storage had become when you could buy a Connor 80MByte IDE ...
Slackware to include MariaDB instead of MySQL from now on... 24 Mar 2013 | 02:53 am
One of the nicest things about Slackware is that you can decide between its -current, and stable branch releases. In fact, most longtime slackers just follow the -current branch and maintain mirrors f...
DistroRank is a Fresh, Honest New Survey Seeking to Track Linux and BSD Popularity 16 Feb 2013 | 05:11 pm
After the fall of Microsoft, and the overwhelming adoption of Linux as a personal computing platform, a group calling themselves the American Laboratory Scientists has launched a project called Distro...
Unlocking Your New Phone Becomes Illegal tomorrow - But the Bryck is Coming... 26 Jan 2013 | 12:31 am
Thinking about purchasing a new smartphone on the cheap, with the intention of unlocking it? Think again. It's almost too late to do that, and tomorrow you could be a felon for doing so under the DCMA...
The End of an Era: R.I.P. FAFNER 23 Jan 2013 | 10:56 pm
Decades of impeccable service and significance to the computer science community have sailed off into the sunset. After more than a decade of faithful and continuous service in her most recent role, F...
Installing The Sublime Text Editor With Vim Style Behavior 30 Dec 2012 | 06:36 am
Sublime Text is a relativley recent addition to the family of available text editors, having been introduced first in January of 2011. it is truly lightning fast, supports syntax highlighting for most...
