My first article on BASH scripting, where we took a simple number guessing program from the Commodore 64 Users Guide and turned it into a BASH script was so popular https://www.catracing.org/hendrb/bash-script-guess-number/ . We had to do a followup. So to … Continue reading →
Some of the most fun I had with the Commodore Vic-20 and Commodore 64, was entering programs from their user’s manual or magazines and learning how to program in BASIC. Something that I think today’s generation starting to use computers … Continue reading →
New Meets Old Scorched Tanks Vs Pocket Tanks When I reviewed Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies for the iPad, I reflected that one of my favorite computers, besides the Commodore 64 was the Amiga computer also made by Commodore. I … Continue reading →
NO CARRIER! – The Lost World Of The BBS “Radio Killed The Video Star.” Or in this case the Internet killed the BBS SysOp, in one of my first blog posts (On the original Windows IIS blog), I mentioned that … Continue reading →
Performing a w (Who is logged in command) we see our currently process that we logged on, at 03:36. Above that is a process that has been idle for 20 hours.. Obviously this is a hung or “stuck” process. How … Continue reading →
Installing OS X 10.9 Mavericks as a VM WARE 10.0 Host I have been pretty quiet about the fact that I have switched from using a 2008 3.0GHz 8 Core Mac Pro to a Dell Optiplex 9020 running Windows 7 … Continue reading →
Brent’s World Quickie: How to register with Brent’s World Have you found several interesting articles on Brent’s World? Do you want to be notified when a new article is posted? If the answer is Yes! Then all you have to … Continue reading →
A Brent’s World Quickie: Single Spaced Documents in Microsoft Word 2013 By Default. Do you use Microsoft Word 2013? Are you annoyed by the fact that the default document style double spaces your documents? Like this? Here is a quick … Continue reading →
Apple Announces The End Of Aperture, And I’m Worried. I have been using and promoting the use of Aperture since purchasing my first digital camera in 2007, looking back its hard to believe that is over 7 years ago. My … Continue reading →
Securing root access by configuring SUDO In previous blog posts, we have enabled and used the root account to make changes to important *nix configuration files to tweak the system to perform in a manner more to our liking. For … Continue reading →
