I did not put the effort before to keep a calendar of any sort on the computer before since it was a pain to get it to synchronize between the desktop computer, laptop, and if I am not near those two the calendar is unavailable… until I found a killer combination.

Thunderbird + Lightning + Provider […]

I recently ordered something and had it ship through UPS. Once it had already shipped, I decided I want it shipped directly to my College Station address instead of my Houston address. I was not sure if this was possible, oo I was getting ready to go to the UPS store, show some ID and […]

Large enterprises, banks and other places requiring very high security log on systems use multi-factor authentication. Multi-factor authentication is using multiple means of verifying if the person trying to log in to the system is the real person and not someone stealing credentials. For example a conventional single-factor authentication is simply entering the user name […]

After struggling with the Intel Bad Axe 2 (D975XBX2) motherboard to get the secondary Marvell SATA controller to work with Fedore Core 7 Linux, I finally got it working. The motherboard has two on board SATA controllers, each with 4 ports, totalling 8 SATA ports. The parimary SATA controller is from Intel and it was […]