Eric Benfer (Systems Administrator at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab) writes of an unexpected problem involving two different versions of the Mac OS 9.1 Software Install CD that shipped with Power ...

Next time you wipe your PC's hard drive clean and reinstall Windows with that old installation disc, you don't want to connect your fresh, unpatched and vulnerable system to the internet only to ...

Recently I became the mostly happy owner of an HP Pavilion dm1z. I say “mostly happy” because I wasn’t thrilled with its performance. To give the system a boost, I decided to swap the pokey 5,200-rpm ...

Your MacBook Air (Late 2010) comes with a USB Software Reinstall Drive that contains a copy of Mac OS X and iLife. If you selected to pre-install iWork at the time ...

Reader Karen Evans has been thwarted in an attempt to install software on her Mac. She writes: Over the holidays I passed along an old Mac mini to my son. When setting it up I inserted a CD to install ...

Reader P.J. Schultz is attempting to reach across the great Mac/PC platform divide but has been thwarted. She writes: I am trying to install the software for my Canon printer on to my husband’s ...

Any idea how I could reformat C drive and reinstall Windows95 from scratch without a CD drive?<P>My husband brought home his old computer from the office when he upgraded. It was running Windows 95 on ...

Basically I have an FC1 installation that I need to retrofit a 2.6 kernel onto. The actual compile/installation of the kernel to a running system was easy. Now attempting to get that kernel onto a ...