A few days back we looked at how to password protect your GRUB boot entries so that a password is required before anyone can boot the operating system or edit the boot entry. Let’s look at some ways you can use to reset your Linux system’s password. You might know that the root user can ...

I have a running rant about Flash being worthless and the symptom of a much larger problem with design: give them blinky lights and they’ll be happy.  Last night I went to watch a YouTube video and the entire laptop froze.  SEE- Flash ate my laptop :) It would not reboot, no matter what I di...

GRUB or the GRand Unified Bootloader is the bootloader commonly installed by Linux distributions on your hard disk. GRUB is responsible for showing you the menu that allows you to choose the operating system you want to boot into and also lets you tweak and control the booting options. Awesome power...

Well, I found a torrent and acquired the .iso file. How to verify that it is legitimate? Well, unlike free software projects, Microsoft doesn’t supply checksums, so I Googled the md5sum: 0-23:03 djh@noneedto Windows 7 Official Beta 1 build 7000 x64 EN$ md5sum Windows\ 7\ Official\ Beta\ 1\ bui...

One of the cool things about custom distributions of GNU/Linux is that they usually have better “eye-candy”. However, it’s not really that hard to provide your own. If you are setting up a multiple boot system, the GRUB boot menu will be an important startup step; remarkably enough...

When I first noticed Khan's Cave I really didn't kn ow what to make of it. Som ehow,  Genghis Khan, and the phra se "Bar & Grill" just didn 't seem to go together. Th is corner of the strip mal l location used to be Hsu's Szechwan, an American-Sz echwan-Mong...

In the paralyzed commercial real estate market, where panicked brokers wring their hands as deals founder, a number of nimble New York pros are looking to claim their share of the emerging submarket that surrounds distressed property assets. It’s not a new business, mind you. It’s more like an o...

The blogosphere is starting to buzz. What’s the buzz? AP has kicked up about bloggers posting short, linked excerpts without paying. Out-law.com says that the Associated Press issued Rogers Cadenhead (of the Drudge Retort) a series of takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act...

We all know that Rachael Ray shills for Dunkin Doughnuts. Rachael " Exudes a certain air of authority that should be useful to Dunkin', especially when she takes a sip of her coffee and authoritatively declares it "delish,"" according to the Chicago Sun Times. But does she actually drink their coffe...

David Chang does good copy. The New Yorker weighs in this week with a whole-hog Larissa MacFarquhar profile (not available online, sorry) of the Momofuku chef “who’s built like a beer mug, and feels that most food tastes better with pork,” and my only complaint was that I wanted mo...