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How to Disable Dashboard in OS X Mavericks?

I have no idea who finds OS X Dashboard as an useful tool. There is a easy way to permanently turn in off by typing just few lines in terminal. Follow this article to get rid of th…

November 08, 2014

Creating Bootable USB Flash Drive with OS X Mavericks

Turning your external drive to a bootable startup disk from which you can install your OS X is a great way to avoid downloading a huge installer file on each Mac you want the syste…

October 19, 2014

How to Change Language of the Login Screen in OS X Mavericks?

By default, language of the login screen will match the language that has been selected during the OS X installation. However, nothing stops you from changing it to any other langu…

October 11, 2014

Wget Equivalent in OS X

The wget command is a very handy Linux tool. Unfortunately by default OS X does not offer it, but there is a decent workaround. Let me show you how to use cURL to achieve exactly t…

October 06, 2014

Linux: How to Check Version of a Package Installed in Ubuntu?

Sometimes you will have a need to check which exact version of currently installed package you have. In various distributions of Linux you can achieve this in the same way. Ubuntu…

March 01, 2014

How to Install Restricted Extras in Ubuntu?

Due to Ubuntu’s policy about non-free formats, by default this OS comes with no support to media like MP3 (which can be required to deal with FFmpeg) and DVD, Flash Player or Java…

February 27, 2014

Creating Bootable USB Flash Drive with Debian

Typical process of creating a bootable USB using previously downloaded ISO image file is pretty easy but with Debian it can become a bit tricky. Follow this article to ensure your…

February 13, 2014

Linux: How to Synchronize Time in Ubuntu or Debian?

You can easily synchronize time of your Linux servers or desktop machines by using ntpdate command.

July 17, 2013

Debian: How to install Software Center?

If your Debian does not have Software Center installed, you can easily obtain it by entering a single command into your terminal.

July 10, 2013

Debian: How to Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy?

This article covers the short process of upgrading Debian operating system from Squeeze to Wheezy.

May 22, 2013

Installing Windows fonts in Debian

By default Debian does not contain any fonts that are typical to Windows operating system. Follow this quick tutorial to see how to make these fonts available on a Debian 6.0.7 Squ…

April 26, 2013

How to Backup and Restore Crontab?

If you deal with crontab on a daily basis, it may be worth to familiarise yourself with a backup / restore strategy in case something goes wrong.

September 12, 2012

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