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There's plenty of competition in the Web Hosting space these days. For me, the primary factor that differentiates a web hosting company from the rest of the crowd is customer service and uptime. An added plus is environmentally friendly infrastructure. I'm happy to endorse a web hosting company that I personally have used for four years - several of my family members' personal and small business web sites are hosted by Turnkey Internet . I keep them honest by by using several free, third-party uptime monitoring tools (a topic for another blog post). I can count on one hand the number of times I received any downtime alerts in these four years. I have also submitted tickets for various questions and found the response time to be excellent. Turnkey Internet's data center is located in upstate New York, where it gets most or all of its power from hydroelectric (Niagara Falls) and solar power. It is on a very short list of EPA Energy Star rated data centers! I

I've found some of the articles and tutorials out there to be either confusing or lacking in detail. So I'm making this post to show how to install a custom Window Manager in Linux Mint, specifically for the XFCE light-weight edition. The reason why you'd want to do this is if you find the out-of-the-box window controls (minimize, maximize, close) to be too small or not to your liking. In XFCE I personally find this to be the case, though the Kokodi window manager provides decent controls. First, you'll need to find and download a custom window manager . Once you decide on one you like, download it from the Files section: Then, in a terminal window, uncompress the downloaded file to the /usr/share/themes (or ~/.themes if you're not allowed or don't want to make changes to /usr/share/themes) directory. user@linux-mint18 ~/Downloads $ sudo tar xvzf 43023-LiNsta-Black-Plastic.tar.gz /usr/share/themes [sudo] password for user: LiNsta-Black-Plastic

So for a few weeks now, I've been dismissing this new Windows 10 Creators Update nag dialog. Some days I wake up to find that my PC is already awake. It turns out that Microsoft's been doing something sneaky behind the scenes. I thought I'd done all the usual methods to prevent that scenario, such as disabling the mouse from being able to wake up Windows.  Looking in Event Viewer (eventvwr), I see the wake source is Unknown. We can run a command in Windows Powershell to list all Scheduled Tasks that could wake the PC: Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-ScheduledTask | where {$_.settings.waketorun} TaskPath TaskName State -------- -------- ----- \Microsoft\Windows\.NET Framework\ .NET Framework NGEN v4.0.30319... Disabled \Microsoft\Windows\.NE

This is for a Motorola Moto G XT1028. YMMV for other variations or generations of the phone, but these instructions are fairly generic. The important thing is that you are able to find the appropriate recovery image for your phone. For me, CWM and Philz Recovery didn't work, but TWRP did. A lot of posts on XDA forums and Android StackExchange have steps for enabling USB debugging mode using the ADB shell. But what if you can't even see your device in "adb devices" in the first place? If your screen is broken and illegible, like mine was, you can't navigate via touch to enable debugging. This was the problem I faced. It took me several hours to really understand the solution. I won't go into detail for most of these steps as there are many guides already: Restart the phone in fastboot mode and connect the USB cable from your PC From your PC's command line, run: fastboot devices List of devices attached TA965XXXXX fastboot If yo