So you have your printer set up with CUPS and you can now print. Ever want to print from the command line? Ever need your bash script to print out system status reports or simply want to print out entire directory of pdfs all in one shot without having to open each pdf individually? Than this quick tip is for you. Read more »

The hosts file is a text file that specifies names of IP addresses. You may recognize this name by the term, URL. Your computer’s operating system by default will always look up the name (url) of a site through your computer first. If your computer doesn’t know the name it then forwards the request to your router or ISP’s router. If that router doesn’t know the address it goes to the next router down the line and so on until one of the routers says, I know where this is at… and points you on your way. Read more »

Windows is notorious for having useless features and CPU resource hogging programs/services enabled by default. Today’s post is about removing some of the useless services. Services are kind of like startup programs, they are usually not necessary, they slow down your computer, and they slow down the boot up process; however, some are useful so thats why I have made a list of ones to get rid of. Read more »

What is Bloatware?

 
Bloatware is any program that uses significantly more system resources than needed to get the job done that the program was originally intended for. Bloatware can also mean a program that comes bundled with other unnecessary programs or unused features and modules. Read more »

What is Defragmentation?

 
Well defragmentation is the undoing of fragmentation. Fragmentation is described as the disarray of files stored in an inefficient manner. In other words, your computer is fast and lazy. It stores files wherever it pleases without giving much thought of how it is going to find the file in the future. Read more »

After looking on the internet for awhile I finally found a decent guide on how to setup Gmail SMTP through postifx; however, after following the guide I found that it left parts out or things didn’t work quite the same on a Ubuntu server. Read more »