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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Malwarebytes has been one of my favorite tools for years. It does a great job at removing junk and unwanted programs that Anti-virus vendors either ignore or can’t detect. When cleaning machines in our shop, we use the Free version which does not offer real-time protection. The Premium version offers […]
Seems like a definition update for Microsoft Security Essentials has broken it on Windows XP. Found this error on our XP test machine this morning. Microsoft has announced that they will provide definition updates for MSE on Windows XP until July of 2015, so what is going on here? Tried […]
I was content simply using the Verizon provided Actiontec Router at the head of my home network until I logged into my Verizon account and saw this: This is wrong on a number of levels. First, the Verizon e-mail account I’m forced to create when I got Verizon FiOS is […]