In the Classic Mac OS, when an application crashed it would usually take down the whole system, requiring a hard reset. Apple largely tackled this in OS X by basing the system off of a UNIX kernel, ...

Norton Disk Doctor: don't let it rename files Faisal Jawdat warns against letting Norton Utilities 6 fix "minor problems" on a Mac OS X volume. Disk Doctor may want to rename files which start with a ...

In the middle of a workday, the screen on your MacBook suddenly dims to gray and displays an ominous warning that you need to restart your computer. You're seeing the ...

Most crashes on a Mac affect just one application. But you may encounter a type of system-wide crash that brings down your entire Mac: a kernel panic. When this occurs, there’s no warning and no way ...

I recently installed Linux for the first time in over a year (at least I think it's been that long) since I got another machine to work with (my last died and couldn't afford to fix it). I started ...

FreeBSD has patched a kernel panic vulnerability is versions compiled to support IPv6 and SCTP. FreeBSD has patched a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting versions configured to support SCTP and ...

Hey all, I know how to install RH 7.3, I've done it a few times on my dell at work. I'm trying to install it on my old Toshiba P233 machine at home to play around with it, and to see if my tv tuner ...