While in the process of updating a development virtual machine of CentOS 5.6, it became clear that the updates would not update CentOS 5.6 to it’s final release of CentOS 5.9. The traditional yum update approach produced the status of No Packages marked for Update. However, a couple of additional commands produced the desired result of CentOS 5.9. The traditional…
Read More »A little while ago, I wrote an article Convert mAh to mWh and mWh to mAh for Notebook Laptop Batteries that provided the calculations needed to convert from mAh to mWh and vice versa. The intent was to simplify the navigation in researching the purchase of a replacement battery. As many battery manufacturers present different pieces of information which makes…
Read More »Recently there was an encounter with a rootkit. The symptoms, open any of three different web browsers, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox and do a couple of searches, the pages would redirect several times over until finally stopping at one of many different web pages. Since, each browser was effected, it had to be a system wide…
Read More »Google Chrome can simply be defined as an Internet web browser. It offers integrated features such as automatic page language translation making it easier than ever to find information that is not necessarily presented in ones native language. After using Google Chrome for sometime, you may find that you want to change the tabbed homepage from an array of icons…
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