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Now days, many computers come equipped with a HDMI-out connection that allows you to connect it to an HDTV so you can watch videos, play games, etc. I have a Dell M1530 that I regularly connect to my Samsung LN40A750 via HDMI to get stunning video output. My laptop used to run Windows Vista and [...]

Yesterday, Google drastically dropped the prices on their storage upgrade options for Gmail and Picasa Web Albums accounts.  Previously, the lowest-cost option was $20/year for 10 GB. With their new prices, it is now $5/year for 20 GB – that’s 8x more bang for your buck! Below is a listing of their new pricing structure:

To [...]

Paint.NET had a major release today of version 3.5 of their software. Until today, I had not heard of this application which surprised me quite a bit. I had thought that the best free photo editor for Windows was GIMP (although I am not a huge fan of it). This is not a GIMP vs [...]

The Snipping Tool is a cool “new” utility that is included with Windows 7. You might be wondering why I put the word new in quotes. That is because this program was actually introduced in Windows Vista but went unnoticed by the vast majority. The reason for this is because it was not installed by [...]

Sun recently announced the release of ACSLS 8.0 last month. The major new feature in this release is the addition of a web-based GUI interface to monitor and manage your libraries. This includes the ability to:

View system alerts
View ACS, LSMs, Volumes, Drives
Perform operations such as mount and dismount
View historical usage graphs and charts
and more!

I am [...]

For years VMware has dominated the market as the leader in virtualization. They offer a number of products from desktop to enterprise applications which can be confusing for users looking for a simple way to run, for instance, an Ubuntu instance within their Windows OS. VMware offers one freeware product called, VMware server that runs [...]

Codenamed Karmic Koala, Ubuntu 9.10 was officially released today.  Some noteworthy new features include:

Faster start-up times
Upgrade to Gnome 2.28
Now available in 25 different languages
New Intel video driver architecture for improved performance
ext4 is now the default filesystem
and many many more!

How to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10?

Navigate to System -> Administration -> Update Manager
Click the Upgrade button next [...]

This article will show you are to disable UAC (User Access Controls) aka those pesky popup dialogs where you must enter your password in Ubuntu Linux! As many of you know, this feature was implemented in Windows Vista but went horribly wrong and is the reason it has been removed in Windows 7. Linux, which [...]

This article will show you how to install/enable the SSHD service on the Linux operating system (Ubuntu in this case). By default, the Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop edition does not come with SSHD installed. This means that remote users are not able to connect to the box via SSH. Luckily, it is very easy to allow [...]

As you know, the addition of a Web-based UI was one of the biggest additions in ACSLS 8.0 versus previous versions. However, when attempting to login to the UI using the acsss account as the ACSLS Admin Guide suggests, you will receive an Authentication Failure message.  The solution to this problem is to create a [...]