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Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Lonnie Wormley

Finally broke down and installed MS Office for 2011 on my Mac Book Pro.  Up to now I have only used MS Office f2010 or Windows on my Fusion virtual machine. MS Office 2008 for the Mac was useless for … Continue reading →

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Remote Desktop Turns Your Tablet into Your PC : 20 Tips and Tricks for Android “Froyo” Tablets

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Lonnie Wormley

6. Remote Desktop Turns Your Tablet into Your PCAndroid 3.0 Honeycomb is the hot new OS, but we still want to show v2.2 some love! Check out these 20 tips to make your Froyo experience more delicious.ZoomWe’ve all been sprawled … Continue reading →

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SSH and SCP: Howto, tips & tricks « Linux Tutorial Blog

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Lonnie Wormley

Specifying a port with scp The scp command acts a little different when it comes to ports. You’d expect that specifying a port should be done this way: [rechosen@localhost ~]$ scp -p yourport yourusername@yourserver:/home/yourusername/examplefile . However, that will not work. … Continue reading →

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Wormley Photo Archive Gallery 3 is back

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Lonnie Wormley

Well, after a long absence and much gnawing and gnashing of  teeth with my hosting provider I have reached a solution that gets my Photo Archive back on the Internet.  I started my experience with the Internet back around 1995 with a … Continue reading →

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Unable to mount NTFS drive with RHEL 6 – redhat – TechQues.com

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Lonnie Wormley

Answer 1Scores:1Install dkms and ntfs-3g from EPEL:# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm# yum install dkms ntfs-3gProvianceH2011-03-01 07:20:41 via Unable to mount NTFS drive with RHEL 6 – redhat – TechQues.com.

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Mac Stuff » Switching between 32 bit and 64 bit mode in Snow Leopard

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Lonnie Wormley

To check which mode you’re currently in run this command in Terminal:systemsetup -getkernelbootarchitecturesettingTo set your machine to boot into 64 bit mode enter this command and reboot:sudo systemsetup -setkernelbootarchitecture x86_64To set your machine to boot into 32 bit mode enter … Continue reading →

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Scientific Linux 6

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Lonnie Wormley

rdesktop -u lcwormley -d asurams -k ja -g 800×600 192.168.25.40 What is this command?  Well for me the holy grail for any desktop computer operating system is to be able to connect back to a Windows box.  As a system … Continue reading →

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Centos 5.5 build 2011

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Lonnie Wormley

After doing a basic CentOS 5.5 KDE install the first application that I install is Google Chrome. If you want to computer to boot straight to the command line, then you need to set your default runlevel to 3. Runlevel … Continue reading →

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CentOS 5.5 on Mac OS X

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Lonnie Wormley

ssh -X finally got CentOS on my Mac Well sometimes the third or fourth time you try something is a charm. I finally got my CentOS desktop to display on my Mac over SSH.  I used this link to make … Continue reading →

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Computer Surgery

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Lonnie Wormley

Moved into the new house.  My Linux Fedora server did not like the move.  I have never lost a server or data before, but it happens to us all eventually. I must qualify my server crash with this explanation.  I have … Continue reading →

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