Drive A drive is a physical device that’s used to store data. It’s not really a formal term but a commonly-used one. While the strictest definition would be the physical device that stores data, the term is often used informally to refer to any storage device, from a disk to a volume. Technically, its meaning is restricted to describing a hardware device. A drive is a physical object upon which a disk resides....

History of X-Window System The X-Window System was originally developed to succeed the W windowing system on UNIX which ran very slowly. X grew to be an important component of network computing environments, as one of its strenghts is support for displaying applications running across a network. Initially under the care of the MIT X Consortium (until its version 11, hence the abbreviation X11), a number of disagreements regarding licensing led to the creation of XFree86 Project, although this was ultimately folded back into the main X codebase....

Google also allowed you to integrate contacts you may have stored within Gmail or Google Apps onto your iPhone, but the process was a bit complex and involved using Microsoft Exchange. Fortunately, the search giant has rolled CardDAV compatibility to their list of open protocols, making the process easier. We’ll walk you through the steps. Adding Google Contacts to iOS For this example, I’ll be using an iPhone 5 running iOS 6 but you may use any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 5....

You download the Ubuntu Live CD iso, burn into CD, boot it up and do a live install. When you finally boot into the new OS, start to use the browser and find that you can’t watch video on Youtube, or when you wanted to listen to mp3 and find that the format is not supportable, you start to wonder if you have make the right choice in switching to Ubuntu....

If you head on over to Smarty right now, you’ll see that the company has doubled the data available on its £7/month a month SIM, meaning that instead of an 8GB allowance, you’ll now get a far more flexible 16GB cap to play around with. Of course, this isn’t the only Black Friday deal to live beyond the sale, as there are plenty of smartphone, smart home and headphone offers still running....

How to use the Windows 8 Reliability Monitor Begin searching for “Reliability Monitor” from the Start screen in Windows 8. Click on “Settings,” then on “View reliability history” to open the Reliability Monitor. The first time you open the in Windows 8 Reliability Monitor, it will take a few minutes depending on how long you’ve been using the PC. By default, the Reliability Monitor will open showing you the days of the current month and issues that popped up on each day....

With information moving at the speed of Twitter, having access to this sea of information is a must-have for many people. There are several Twitter clients for Android. Below is a breakdown of some of them. Twitter The first and most obvious application is the one Twitter made. The Twitter made application is very clean and gives you the basics you need to send and receive updates, DMs and Replies....

To optimize storage space, the OS analyzes the content of a user’s hard drive and sorts files into two camps: “purgeable” and everything else. What Does “Purgeable” Mean? “Purgeable” describes files that macOS has decided could be deleted, if necessary. This is similar to “deleting” data from a hard drive: data is marked as garbage, but it’s not gone until it’s overwritten. Purgeable data still exists as real, accessible files, but macOS has deemed those files expendable....

The official Raspberry Pi camera module is a Full HD camera that plugs into the Raspberry Pi via the Camera Serial Interface (next to the Ethernet port) on the device. The sensor on the camera is a 5MP with fixed focus lens. It can shoot still images with a maximum resolution of 2592×1944 as well as Full HD 1080p video @ 30 FPS and 720p video @ 60 FPS. And you get all this in a module that’s only 25x20x9mm in size and weighs just 9 grams!...

However, most of the apps you will come across will cost you or may not work properly. If you want to use the webcam of your computer as a surveillance camera with the aide of your smartphone, try AtHome Video Streamer. Athome Video Streamer is a very handy tool that is available for all popular platforms, including Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. After installing the app on both your computer and smartphone, you can use your computer as a surveillance camera....

The Problem Most People Face When Modifying Windows The majority of computer users would like to turn their Windows installations into something more personalized, much like how you can do it with certain Linux distributions. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn’t really want people messing around with their graphic interface, and why code it into Windows when there are many third-party applications (some even free for download) that can do these things? We’re not exactly sure why Windows doesn’t let you do things like changing the Start button or logon screen on your computer....

Technology, however, isn’t limited to electronics and microprocessors – the definition of technology is really just “the application of scientific knowledge“, and the application of scientific knowledge is what’s brought us to the subject of today’s article: the wearable chair. Full disclosure: I presently work from home and write to make my living. However, I’m not unfamiliar with the on-your-feet industry in fast food, retail, etc., and I’m sure many of you aren’t either....

Though most haven’t spread out of Asia yet, apps like WeChat, Alipay, Grab, Go-Jek, Paytm, Kakao, and Line are becoming an essential part of life in many places. Most started with a few functions, like chatting with friends, making payments, or hailing rides, but have essentially turned into miniature operating systems for life. The super app model makes sense: it’s an easy way to get access to many different services, saves phone space, and frees users from having to hunt down lots of different apps....

The good news is that Windows Event Viewer has options where you can get rid of the info you don’t need. Thanks to the filters, you can have Event Viewer only show you specific information. Let’s see how easy it is to use them. What Is Windows Custom Views? Custom Views in Windows Event Viewer is a special showing where you only see the warnings that interest you. For example, let’s say that you want to see if a specific part of your computer is failing....

What Is Cryptocurrency Arbitrage? To understand what cryptocurrency arbitrage is, we are first introducing the concept of arbitrage. Imagine that you’ve just bought a pencil for $10, which you then sold to someone else for $11. You would make a profit of $1 by simply trading it for a higher price. This model of trading is known as arbitrage. Arbitrage is a technical term given to the old basic practice of buying a product for a lesser price and selling it for a higher price....

What Is Honeygain? If you have extra bandwidth each month, Honeygain wants to pay you for it. Of course, it’s not quite that simple. The company pays users to share their Internet connection with other companies for various reasons, which I’ll discuss later on. Honeygain has a proxy network that allows businesses to connect to users. For each gigabyte you share, you get paid. The idea is to make use of your connection when it’s idle, such as when you’re at work, out shopping, or away on vacation....

Benefits of LVM If you have multiple hard drives, through LVM you can group all the hard drives into one large drive. You can create and resize new partitions as needed. You can add an extra hard disk to a current volume group to increase space. Note: This tutorial assumes you are using Ubuntu and have three hard disks (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc). Create Partition on /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc First you need two unpartitioned hard disks “/dev/sdb” and “/dev/sdc....

What Is the Shebang? The Shebang, or #!, is a character set used to direct your system on which interpreter to use. If you’re not familiar with what an interpreter is, it’s basically the program that reads the commands you enter into the terminal on your Linux system. You probably know it as Bash, but you also could use Fsh, Zsh, or Ksh. This is a binary program that reads the commands you put into it, like ls or xargs, and figures out what to do with them....

In the article we explain what Windows Shell Experience Host is and guide you as you resolve issues of memory over-consumption. What is the Window shell experience host? Universal Windows apps are always presented in a trademark Windows interface. The way these universal apps are presented is the primary function of the Windows shell experience host. The function of this process makes it handle a lot of graphical elements pertaining to Windows applets....

This acquired land is actually a NFT that belongs to you, proving your ownership as each one is unique and has a different digital signature. But what makes it such a big deal, and how can you get your own piece of land in the Metaverse? These are the questions we will be answering in this article. What is Virtual Land? If you ever played a free-roam game like GTA, then you can probably remember how being immersed into an alternative world that, even though it only existed inside your computer, felt so real....