It’s really very simple.
Bring up a terminal window.
At the command prompt type sudo rm -r <directory-name>
So, if you wanted to remove a directory called ’spare’ that was in the directory ‘etc’ which is itself off the home directory you would simply type without the quotes ’sudo rm -r /etc/spare’
The system will prompt you for your [...]
I’m a late adopter of Vista for a few reasons.
One, I don’t spend money on unproven commericial software that is fresh out the gate. It’s always got bugs, and more often more bugs than open source software of a similar ilk (comparing many distros of Linux to Vista for example).
Two, I was relatively happy with [...]
I am writing this blog post using Opera 9.24 running on Ubuntu 7.10. You’ll sleep better knowing that I am sure.
I am currently undertaking some network housekeeping. The time has come, as it does on all windows machines to re-install one of them. No amount of tinkering about with registry fixes and the [...]
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Magic Jack
I came across this little gizmo during my online wanderings. I read up on it, watched the videos on the Magic Jack site, and decided to order one.
Also tagged $20 a year for unlimited phone calls, cinch, dongle, free phone calls, gizmo, mac version, magic jack, registration area, time number, unlmited phone calls, usb ports, usb stick, wanderings, Windows XPIt was a cinch to set up, and real easy to use. It’s like a big USB stick, and comes with a short cable so you can plug [...]