Ftp Ftp servers can be used to transfer files to a web server or download files from a web server. Windows 8 has an inbuilt ftp server that can be used to do this. Setting up the inbuilt ftp server of windows 8 requires more steps than installing a 3rd party ftp server. However we are going to try to do it in this tutorial. Turn on FTP The first step is to turn the [...]

The default process to shutdown windows 8 is quite lengthy. If you are at the desktop then first you need to go to Start screen, then logout and then in the power option is the shutdown option. It is possible to have a quick desktop icon that can do this in a single step. Create a desktop shutdown icon The first thing to do is to create a desktop icon that will shutdown the machine. [...]

In today’s experiment we are going to install windows 8 on virtualbox and see how well it works. Virtualbox is a very powerful and popular virtualisation tool that can be used to run a variety of oses. Our host os is ubuntu. It means that Ubuntu is installed on hard drive as an OS and virtualbox would be running in ubuntu. And inside virtualbox we are going to install windows 8 to try it out. [...]

In httpd.conf file the following line should be uncommented : LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so by removing the # sign before it. Then comes a section which looks like this : <Directory "C:/Apache2.2/htdocs"> # # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All", # or any combination of: # Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews # # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* — "Options All" # doesn’t give it to you. # # The [...]