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I'm still alive :) If you want to set your Google Chrome omnibar to have a GMail search shortcut: Chrome (triple dots) Settings ...

History: Swapped out motherboard on Lenovo T460P. PIN no longer identified and biometrics flakey. Deleted PIN and fingerprint data in ...

There are a few handy tools out there that I consider to be game-changers. Etherpad is one of them. According to  http://etherpad.org/  ...

So Microsoft is doing a douche financial move - they're more than doubling the SA Xbox Live subscription fee. There's only one thing...

Recently had to run a recovery for someone on Mac OS X - the local disk was mounted read only. To fix this: https://discussions.apple.com...

Condition We're running a Dell PowerVault MD3600i iSCSI connection to a RHEL server. From time to time (rarely but more frequently th...

PXE Chaining. PXE chainloading. PXE cross booting. I don't really know the correct term but I know what I wanted to do. Surprisingly...

If you have a tendency to use Google Chrome on multiple devices, there's a nice and easy "hack" to get your tabs to travel wit...

[ EDIT - some widgets won't function properly when moved to SD card, so bear that in mind ] I recently said goodbye to my BlackBerry l...

Sometimes I have the need to RDP to a remote site but having to file a request with the IT dept. in order to get through the firewall can so...

Managing HP ProCurve switches is a breeze when you've got an HP ProBook 6570b handy with its (really under-rated) RS232 connector. Som...

I attempted a Windows Easy Transfer from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 and it all backed up wonderfully smoothly. The restore, however, landed me...

If you've suddenly noticed that your Google Chrome Extensions have all been replaced by a minimalist >> drop-down menu there's...

A simple solution to a simple problem: My cut and paste between my Windows 8 box and my RHEL box (running a VNC session) stopped working....

Trying to deploy VMware ESXi 5.5 on a Dell Optiplex 7010 threw out this error: To get around this, I found this post  http://bohemiangro...

Had a major headache trying to find how to pair an LG remote for a DR165 with an LG CRT TV. Found out the way to do it was to hold down th...

When setting up a Windows 7 laptop, a Windows 8 Laptop, and a Linux desktop, I use Google Chrome Sync to keep everything standard across the...

If you find that once you highlight a few columns or rows in Excel and tell it to "Format as table" you are unable to add any more...