Category: Operating Systems
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Linux: A Love Story (Part 1 – History)
Somewhere between “I just want my printer to work” and “I recompiled […]
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Stop Typing the Same Command 50 Times: Introducing the Bash Prompt Alias Generator
System Administrators are a special breed. We will happily spend six hours writing, testing, and debugging a complex script to automate a task that takes exactly five seconds. It is a fundamental law of system administration: if you can…
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Google Antigravity: The AI-First Development Platform You Need to Try
Google Antigravity is a powerful, AI-first development platform designed to seamlessly integrate autonomous agentic workflows directly into your coding environment. Whether you are creating a new codebase, modifying an existing one, or…
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Create an Amazon AWS EC2 Linux Instance to run Google Antigravity
**Google Antigravity** is a powerful, AI-first development platform designed to seamlessly integrate autonomous agentic workflows directly into your coding environment. Whether you are creating a new codebase, modifying an existing one, or…
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How to Expand a Windows 11 VM Disk When the Recovery Partition is in the Way (VirtualBox + PowerShell)
I recently spun up a Windows 11 virtual machine in VirtualBox to test various scripts before posting them here to the site. Initially, I provisioned the VM with a 20GB C:\ drive, figuring that would be plenty of room for basic testing. I…
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Rust desk pro: self hosted, cross platform remote desktop solution
As remote desktop solutions rise in prices and complexity, RustDesk offers an open-source alternative. RustDesk Pro provides enterprise features like address books and Single Sign-On for managing multiple devices. Self-hosting ensures data…
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Automate Software Installation: Ninite’s Game-Changing Benefits
The Ultimate Tool for System Provisioning: How Ninite Revolutionizes IT Workflows https://ninite.com " rel="nofollow">https://ninite.com">https://ninite.com ; Setting up a new computer—or provisioning a fleet of dozens of new…
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Upgrading to 2.5GbE: My Network Troubleshooting Journey
The Phantom Network Drops I recently made the jump to a 2.5 GbE home network, and I can honestly say it was absolutely worth the effort. The project initially kicked off as a troubleshooting mission to fix some bizarre network gremlins on…
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Enable ps-remoting on windows 11
To configure PowerShell remoting on Windows 11, run PowerShell as Administrator and execute “Enable-PSRemoting -Force.” If faced with an error, check your network profile, changing it from Public to Private. For non-domain connections,…
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Automating BGInfo with PowerShell
BGInfo is a popular Microsoft Sysinternals utility that automatically overlays essential system information—such as the computer name, IP address, operating system version, and boot time—directly onto a Windows desktop wallpaper. Widely…