The Eternal Question, how to properly say GIF

Ever since back in the day I have heard it pronounced DGIF or JIF but more and more the millennials are saying GIF. Let's go directly to the source for the proper pronunciation, the creator — Steve Wilhite. Wilhite created the GIF format when he was working at CompuServe, the format was originally intended to …

Xbox Duracell Deal Crap

I don't write too much these days but I woke up this morning to my news feed spamming me with headlines that look like nothing more than click baiting desperate for some ratings and clicks, even from what some consider reputable sources like Kotaku... My feed was spammed with headings like: Xbox Controller Reportedly Still …

Destiny 2 – Dawning 2019 Guide

It's the time of the year guardians. Eva's back at the tower, so is old man winter along with the festivities that come with them. To be able to partake in the festivities however, you will need to collect ingredients then use Eva's oven to bake tasty treats for your friends all over the solar …

Divinity Exotic Guide

The Divinity is something you get from the raid but there are some steps you will need to do before you go into the raid itself. This guide will walk you through these initial steps.

WordPress.com’s New Collection Of Themes Are Depressing

I feel this same way. I get that you get what you pay for but my goodness they are getting horrible and using this to push you in a corner to upgrade to their paid tiers. I too was thinking about moving but I'd have to start my blog all over and then leave my …

Mounting an exFAT Drive on Ubuntu

I share files with people on MacOS, Windows and Linux. A drive I use was formatted as exFAT due to some large files I needed to share with my Windows and Mac peeps. I tried to load the drive on my Ubuntu computer and I get the following error message ... Unable to mount "USB …

Calendar Spam technique making the rounds again

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up a that an old spam method is making its way around the net again and wanted to ensure you are informed. The system entails spammers sending you emails that include calendar invites with links. Warning: Do Not Click the link(s) in the email. Do Not Reply with …

Create a Bootable USB on MacOS

I have a MacBook as my home machine (got it used as a trade for some work). I had to rebuild my firewall and need a bootable USB. I did not want to rely on utilities so I looked into doing this from the terminal. It wasn't as hard as I thought. For this process, …

Linux Kernel 5.0 on Ubuntu 18.04

Canonical just released 18.04.03 that has Kernel 5.0 which brings hardware support as well as performance boosts. You will only get this if you do one of two things, do a fresh install of 18.04.03 or manually update the Kernel. Canonical is not doing this for you in the update/upgrade path you would normally take. …

Upgrade Bash on macOS

Apple, as innovative as they are, ships  their computers with an old version of GNU Bash from 2007: GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin19) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. By the time we're done you will be running the upgraded version (5.0.7 as of this writing): GNU bash, version 5.0.7(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin18.5.0) Copyright (C) 2019 …