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October 22nd, 2024

Using Gmail or Google Apps for sendmail and postfix on Ubuntu

Lots of people have been asking us to update our previous guide on using Gmail and Google Apps under CentOS for Ubuntu. Wait no longer! […]
Synaptics TouchPad Driver with 2-Finger tap in Windows 10

Background You may have updated to Windows 10 only to find that you do not have an appropriate Synaptics TouchPad driver. You used to be […]
Enable Remote Desktop Connect in Windows Home

Microsoft only allows you to connect to computers running Windows Pro or higher with the Remote Desktop Connection app. They do not allow the Windows […]
VMWare ESXi Tools

For most VMWare ESXi installs you can now just use the open-vm-tools package: Ubuntu: apt-get install open-vm-tools Centos/RHEL: yum install open-vm-tools
HOW TO: Remove old kernels in CentOS & RHEL

Removing older kernels in CentOS, RedHat Linux (RHEL), or Scientific Linux is really easy, if you know how! Yum provides a package called “yum-utils” that […]