Mar 25, 2018 Posted by newlife007

Using MusicBee to Manage Music and Playlists with FIIO X1 2nd Gen

Using MusicBee to Manage Music and Playlists with FIIO X1 2nd Gen Introduction Recently purchased an FIIO X1 2nd Gen HiRes player to make my foray into Hi Resolution music after many years as an iPod Touch user. My main reason was to experience Hi Resolution music and also tpo look for an alternative to iPod’s as well as a music player not tied to specific operating system or application. When you plugin... read more

Dec 16, 2017 Posted by newlife007

Fixing BOOTMGR not Found error Windows 7

Introduction Recently booted system up and received a Bootmgr not found error. Tried the noprmal boot from Windows 7 install CD and ran repairs to no avail. After a bit of digging this is how the issue was resolved. It maybe that part of the solution works for your issue or all like in my case. The Process Boot system using Windows 7 installation disk. After the intial screen starts for the installation... read more

Nov 30, 2017 Posted by newlife007

Working With XFS Filesystems on RedHat 7

Introduction In this post we will cover how to create, mount and manage the XFS filesystem on RedHat/CentOS 7. XFS is one of many filesystems available for use on RedHat / CentOS systems and is the default filesystem for RedHat / CentOS 7. The most commonly used filesystem is ext3/ext4 on RedHat / CentOS. A Bit about XFS XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system. It was introduced in the... read more

Nov 27, 2017 Posted by newlife007

Calibrating Profiling a Monitor in Linux Using a Datacolor Spyder 4

What is Calibration The display behavior is measured and adjusted to meet user-definable target characteristics, like brightness, gamma and white point. This step is generally referred to as calibration. Calibration is done by adjusting the monitor controls, and the output of the graphics card (via calibration curves, also sometimes called video LUT curves to get as close as possible to the chosen target.... read more

Aug 8, 2017 Posted by newlife007

How To Find A String in a File With PowerShell

Introduction So you have a need to have PowerShell to look for a string in a file and create and entry if it doesn’t find it and do nothing if it does.  For my example I am installing an application and I need to add three lines of content, but if it exists I do not want duplicate entries created. The Code There are probably other ways to achieve the goal, but my idea was to use Get-Content and read... read more