LibreOffice can help you protect your documents with passwords. Only users with the correct password will be allowed to open the documents. How do you password-protect LibreOffice documents? For those using LibreOffice productivity suite, this brief tutorial is going to show you how to password-protect documents created with LibreOffice Suite. When a document is password-protected, […]
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How do You Install VMware Workstation Pro on Windows
How does one install VMware Workstation Pro on Windows computers? VMware Workstation Pro is a great virtualization tool to run multiple guest machines on a single host. Students who are studying to be IT professionals need to have sets of tools at their disposal. One such tool is a virtualization software. Virtualization software will let […]
How do You Update VMware Guest Tools on Guest Machines?
VMware guest tools are important for its guest machines. How does one update the guest tools after upgrading the host software? Every time there’s a new update to VMware host software, an update to its guest tool is also included. When you have guests already installed on this host machine, you must update / upgrade […]
Making Google Chrome Default Browser in Windows 10
Windows 10 is awesome and so is Google Chrome. I’m a big Google Chrome fan, so how do you make Chrome the default web browser in Windows 10? I am a big fan of Google Chrome. Since I first installed it, I’ve been using it and nothing else. I used to like Firefox prior to […]
How to Redirect Non-www Traffic to WWW on Nginx
Running Nginx web server to speed up one’s blog is good, however, configuring optimal settings should be one’s goal. What is the best way to configure Nginx redirect to combine both www and non-www traffic? Students who want to learn how to configure Nginx webserver to redirect all traffic to WWW domain can follow the steps […]
How do You Update PHP Configurations for WordPress?
PHP is a server side scripting language used by popular content manage systems like WordPress Drupal and Joomla. It’s part of the LAMP or LEMP stack. Do does one configure PHP settings to support WordPress or other content manage systems? PHP as you may already know is a server side scripting language. It’s widely used […]
Student Question – How Do You Optimize and Repair MySQL Databases?
MySQL check is a tool that gets installed along with installing MySQL database servers. It’s there to help analyse and fix common errors as well as optimize MySQL databases and tables. The question is how does one use mysqlcheck command? This brief post shows you how to use mysqlcheck to optimize and repair and fix […]
Student question – How to Change SSH Server Default Port on Ubuntu?
Changing your SSH Server default port # from 22 to something else is one way to secure your server. This post shows students show to easily do that with Ubuntu. Students who want to learn how to change SSH server default port # from 22 to something else can follow the steps below. Although changing […]
Student question – How to Resolve Ubuntu 16.10 Piix4_SMBus Host SMBus controller bus not enabled on VMWare Workstation Pro?
Many people are reporting issues with Ubuntu 16.10 and VMware Workstation 12.5.1 where Ubuntu is unable to boot because SMBus Piix4 controller error. How do you resolve this error and allow Ubuntu Yakkety Yak to boot? This brief tutorial shows you how to quickly resolve Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) and VMware Workstation Pro error where Ubuntu […]
Students question – How to Reset MySQL Root Password?
MySQL root account is very critical. Without it the root user won’t be allowed to access or mange MySQL databases. This brief tutorial shows students and new users steps to reset the root password of MySQL database server. Losing the root password for your MySQL database server is a show stopper. You won’t be able […]