After installing Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I installed Gnome (gnome-session-flashback aka gnome-session-fallback). Some weeks later, after deleting a bunch of files, I went to empty the trash. Where’s the darn trash can? Of course, I could do it from the command line: jmcnelis@atom:~$ rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/* But I’d rather do it […]
Jim
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I’ve long been a fan of Synergy. Synergy is software for sharing your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on your desk. It works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. On my desktop, I run Windows with dual monitors as my main computer. The keyboard and mouse are physically […]
Although crude by modern standards, Mr Baer’s creation kicked off the home gaming industry, http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30377663
Malware creating a Proxy is nothing new, but recently Malware authors have taken it one step further: They are setting a registry key which disables you from removing the Proxy setting via the Internet Options dialog. Here’s how to fix it for Windows 7 and above. Open Registry Editor, and […]
Since as long as I can remember, all the way back to Windows 3.1, Solitaire has been included with Microsoft Windows. Sometimes it would be hidden, like on a default Windows 7 Professional install, but it never took much effort to get your first good, time-wasting game of Solitaire on […]
Today, all of a sudden, every Windows 7 machine in our office fails Windows Update with the 80246002 error. Two machines were brand new installations. As a temporary fix, I changed the DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (Google’s DNS Servers) and it now works. We were using OpenDNS. I’m […]