Category: Computing

For a couple days now I’ve been getting an annoying startup message from an Adobe app that launches at boot time on my MacBook Pro. After I log in and the GUI appears, I...

Thumbnail image on this article thanks to u/hkntshr on Reddit, since his looks pretty and mine’s a mess. So for a couple months I’ve been running Linux as my primary OS on both my...

A couple weeks ago I bought a Sony VAIO UX from someone on eBay. The unit had been updated to Windows 7 from Windows Vista Business. Vista Business was the OS installed on the...

Flash back to 2006. This is long before everyone had an iPhone or Android device in their pocket. We were lucky to have a color LCD on our phones, let alone a nice capacitive...

I should specify at the outset that this tutorial is designed for the “Meraki Cloud” authentication type with Client VPN configuration from Meraki Dashboard. This article assumes that you already have Client VPN configured...

Before You Wipe Windows First, you’ll need to make sure that your BIOS is updated to version 1.05. My unit shipped with BIOS version 1.01 and there was no support for the trackpad in...

My History with Linux, and Linux’s History with Hardware I’ve been dabbling in the world of Linux for a long time. My first experience with Linux was in 1997/1998 with the release of RedHat...

A few years ago I stepped in to the world of NVME storage on my primary laptop. Not shortly after, I built a desktop whose OS/boot drive was also NVME. The difference between NVME...

A Brief History I could write a book about the history of NEXT, but I fear this tutorial will be long enough as it is. As brief as possible – NEXT was the company...