fighting the lack of good ideas
In similar fashion to what I wrote about for OS X last year, and spurred by this article from Microsoft, here is my brief guide for doing the same on Windows 10. Click your Notifications button near the clock. Now click All Settings And you’ll see this Click Personalization, then Lock Screen. Select “Slideshow” from the…
(*Though most people would call me an XXXL blogger.) Following in the steps of Dave Winer, I am now plogging (sorta) on Medium. And, like Mr Winer, I’m doing it via IFTTT (though not via RSS, I’m doing it via the WordPress channel). If you’d like to do the same, use this IFTTT recipe.
There’s been quite a bit of excitement surrounding Let’s Encrypt recently – a truly 100% free SSL issuer. Last week I helped a friend of mine get his first Let’s Encrypt certificate generated and configured for his website. One of the things I found incredibly frustrating is that Let’s Encrypt does not have a package…
(Note: I did this in Chrome – it’ll be a little different in other browsers) I have several complaints about the book of the face – not least of which is that it likes to reset your News Feed from “Most Recent” (aka most useful) to “Top Stories” (aka whatever Facebook wants you to see)….
Perhaps you’re at a coffee shop, and want to ensure your communication is secure. Or maybe you are out of the country, and need access to something like annualcreditreport.com. What’s a body to do? If you have a Mac, set up a system-wide proxy setting for a new Location, of course! This is a very…
Last week I wrote a how-to on using Pydio as a front-end to a MooseFS distributed data storage cluster. The big complaint I had while writing that was that I wanted to use ownCloud, but it doesn’t Just Workâ„¢ on CentOS 6*. After finishing the tutorial, I decided to do some more digging – because…
This started-off as a how-to on installing ownCloud. But their own installation procedures don’t work for the 8.0x release and CentOS 6. Most of you know I’ve been interested in distributed / cloud storage for quite some time. And that I find MooseFS to be fascinating. As of 2.0, MooseFS comes in two flavors – the…
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