Chromebrew, A Package Manager for Chrome OS It is somewhat known that Chrome OS is a form of Linux. What is less known about it is what distro Chrome OS is based on. Chrome OS is based on Gentoo Linux. Essentially, what separates Gentoo Linux from other forms of Linux is that it does not…
Using the Execute Command in Minecraft Back when I had my old YouTube channel, my most popular video of all time (it still is) is how to use the Execute command in Minecraft. Since then, the command has changed. Since I am terrible at recording videos, I have decided not to record a video as…
Important Note This article is outdated! There is now a better way to do this that doesn’t require rooting your Chromebook! Check out our article about installing Minecraft: Java Edition on our Chromebook here: UPDATE: How to Install Minecraft: Java Edition on a Chromebook, and if you’ve already done that, check out our article on how…
FreeBSD: The OS Even Most Linux Devs Don’t Know Much About I’m going to go ahead and make a bold statement: Linux users know more about Windows than Windows users know about Linux. There’s a ladder of knowing more than the other guy that happens with the Operating Systems. It’s kind of a food chain…
My Favorite Computer Jokes This is somewhat of an odd article. I haven’t been doing much which is worth talking about recently, so I decided to lay back and do a funny article. I haven’t done one of those in a while, but there is a whole category of articles. So here are some of…
Using WINE to Interpret Windows Apps on Linux Systems WINE is an interpreter for Windows apps on Linux systems. At least in the context of this interpreter, we are not talking about the alcoholic beverage. WINE stands for WINE Is Not an Emulator. It is one of the many examples of recursive acronyms in the…
Paper Server for Minecraft: Java Edition My server has pretty much always had performance issues. Even though I run my Minecraft server on my supercomputer (see The Poor Man’s Guide to Making a Supercomputer), and allocate up to 24 GB of RAM to it, it still crashes sometimes. However, that has recently ended, since I…
Optimization Plugins for WordPress One of WordPress’s best features is that it is customizable. Info Toast uses WordPress to send out articles to the masses. To improve search engine visibility, we went to Google to see how the site was sped up. They suggested several plugins that we love. They enable the website to send…
Best Ways to Get Nerds in an Argument People don’t think that nerds are usually the fighting type. However, there are some things that nerds get very angry about other nerds about. These are three of those ways that I have been thinking about. 1) Bigger Processor Caches vs. Smaller, Smarter Processor Caches This is…
How to Install & Use Ajax Chat AJAX Chat is a relatively old innovation, and the project is abandoned, but it still works. It doesn’t just work. It works quite well. If you want a way to engage with your community and have your community engage with themselves, then look into AJAX Chat. In this…
