Category: NZTekonverse -> Windows
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Linux So Far [2]
Obviously a bugbear of any platform is that the software you want to run isn’t always available for the platform and these days it is not unusual to have several computers running multiple platforms if you are a power user. I have had to maintain at least one Windows computer since I switched to Linux,…
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Bits and Pieces
Old server or desktop chassis make great little tables to put stuff on next to your desk. So that I don’t spill that drink on my keyboard while I am writing my assignments. It is another step along the way in getting everything set up in the house the way it needs to be. The…
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How Many Mints?
In my household I have four computers for various purposes plus another one out the back. I have been thinking a lot about which computers will run which OSs. The main issue is I still need a Windows 7 system for some stuff that is easier to do on a physical computer than by running…
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More Mint and a system monitor applet
After playing with a lot of Lubuntu systems I have started to prefer Mint where enough memory is installed because it is often easier to install higher spec apps like Qgis. Lubuntu is really good for a lower spec system which doesn’t get used for more than internet stuff and I really recommend it for…
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Windows / Android
Well the Windows 7 computer has been set up and is doing a great job of running Windows 7 instead of 10. Of course MS will try to phase out Win 7 support as soon as they can so when that happens I will have to try to work out what I am going to…
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Sharing resources between Windows and Linux computers
Since I have two main computers and one runs Windows while the other runs Linux, there are inevitably going to be some ways in which I will try to share resources between the two computers. Linux of course comes with Samba preinstalled to allow shared folders to be accessible to Windows. One of the key…
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Enable Presentation Mode and Mobility Center on a desktop computer
Presentation Mode is something I am trying out with Windows 10 desktops that are permanently connected to a projector. Microsoft don’t seem to have got their head around the idea that people will use a desktop to do presentations, and so these capabilities are disabled by default on a desktop. But they can be enabled…
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Switching to Linux [4]
Continuing on my series of investigations into switching the most powerful of my computers to Linux. There are now some important questions to be resolved in the area of running a software based RAID 1 array on a pair of disks (a mirror) as this is somewhat of an advanced area of knowledge and unlike…
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MS wants to push Windows 10 onto computers automatically by sending it as a Windows update
A couple of days ago I wrote about how Windows 10 automatically installs updates by default and automatically restarts your computer at a time it dictates – ignoring whether that time is convenient for you or not. It so happens that at the end of October, MS announced that the free update of Windows 10,…
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Presentations on Windows 10
If you are familiar with Windows 10 you will be aware of a number of issues that are material to computers that are used mainly for presentations of content onto a projector. Microsoft has changed these operating systems to be more pushy and intrusive in the areas of Updates Notifications Firstly updates, since Windows 8…