August 2, 2010
Hard drives are huge nowadays, not just in popularity, but also in data storage size. Now that you can easily pick up a terabyte hard drive for a reasonable price, you have a new problem: how do you split up that space? Partitioning is a method of dividing storage space inside a hard drive and lets [...]
July 22, 2010
Every operating system has its own strengths. Windows is ubiquitous, and offers access to a wide range of software. OSX is rock-solid, and typically behaves exactly as the user expects. Linux gives you access to millions of open source programs that can’t always be found elsewhere. Many of these free applications are amazingly useful, even [...]
June 26, 2010
With Windows getting real good and Linux trying to cater to needs of every user, it is not unusual to have a dual boot configuration on your computer. Dual boot means you have two operating systems (most likely Windows and a Linux distro) on your computer. You get some kind of menu to choose which [...]
August 8, 2009
A few days back I wrote about books that beginners can download and read to teach themselves Linux. Today in the Linux section we have something for the power users. Here are a few tips you should try out if you are an avid Ubuntu Linux user: 1. Get lightning fast and clever at the [...]
February 28, 2009
I am an old school network admin and when I first found out I could re-size active hard drive partitions without losing my data back in the late 90′s on a Windows NT machine – I was ecstatic. Yes I am so old school I remember when it was called The Partition Magician and it [...]
November 4, 2008
Recovering deleted/lost files on a Windows system is easy to do as there are plenty of software (both paid and free file recovery apps) that allows you to do so like a CSI expert. But what about Linux? Recently my Linux hard disk crashed on me and it was then that I discovered that there [...]
August 30, 2008
Do you dual-boot Windows and Linux? If you do, then you’re probably familiar with the different file systems that the two operating systems use and the difficulty in transferring files between the two. While most modern Linux operating systems can read and write to Windows file systems (NTFS and FAT/FAT32), Windows can’t read or write [...]
