Category: Personal Blog

There was once a product that allowed a Mac to run a massive variety of x86 and x86-64 operating systems harmlessly; It was called Parallels Desktop. Over the years Parallels enhanced the functionality of their product with the subscription only Parallels Desktop Pro which introduced powerful (although incomplete) command line tools, and the ability to…

Not much to shout about. Simply having little money prevents me from studying at the level I want to. At least I’m sort of qualified to operate my home server which took a lot more setting up with Red Hat Enterprise Linux than that course could prepare a user for.

I’ve been using exclusively Macintosh computers for many years and have almost forgotten what a PC is. Mac’s are a form of Personal Computer (PC) but are rarely referred to in that way. It all started with macOS Server which was not and still isn’t a particularly reliable product. I persisted with macOS Server because…

After a very long interest in GNU/Linux systems and their applications in the world around me it was about time that I actually started to document my knowledge. I took advantage of edX in the world of lockdowns to do just that. I am suffering severe learning difficulties at this time so even with my…

I’m blogging again having decided that I need a more up-to-date version of WordPress that will play nice with plugin installations, and hopefully work nicely with the iOS and iPadOS apps. I liked the idea and the simplicity of the Debian pre-packaged WordPress distribution and I may even recommend it to many users. Being an…

I like this theme and will probably customise it a bit, but at least now I don’t think my site looks hideous. My priority will be getting information onto the site and I’ll do the decoration work latter. Now I should really go to bed, Good night!

My site looks hideous! I’ve tried manually adding css code using the built-in editor and things seem to go as expected until the whole thing self destructs! I decided to manually edit code to avoid installing another theme to maintain but it now appears that I may have misjudged the situation; WordPress does not work…

Here I find myself in the totally alien world of the modern web. My intension is to create a useful log of stuff I learn for my own reference, and available to all who may benefit from my experience and save some of their time. As the domain suggests I am enthusiastic about Macintosh® computers…