Dave McKay

Program Director and Midday Host at WSTW-FM (Wilmington, DE)

Midday host at 93.7 WSTW and https://t.co/Xjppcg5r9d

Articles

RBC Investor Day 2025

4 weeks ago | rbc.com | Dave McKay |Neil McLaughlin |Greg carmichael

Dave McKay is President and CEO of RBC, Canada’s biggest bank, and one of the largest in the world based on market capitalization. He is reimagining the future of financial services to help RBC’s clients thrive and communities prosper. An unwavering champion of big ideas and bold ambition, Dave is actively transforming RBC with a focus on deepening client relationships and delivering personalized advice and insights that people and businesses can’t get anywhere else.
What Are Virtual Machines, and How Do They Work?

1 month ago | lxer.com | Dave McKay

Virtual machines emulate physical computers; they're easy to create and configure, and you can experiment without harming the host computer. Your host computer needs sufficient RAM, CPU power, and hard drive space to service your VMs. VMs are perfect for test-driving operating systems, and trying out configuration changes in a safe space before rolling them out on your physical computer.
What Are Virtual Machines, and How Do They Work?

2 months ago | howtogeek.com | Dave McKay

Virtual machines emulate physical computers; they're easy to create and configure, and you can experiment without harming the host computer. Your host computer needs sufficient RAM, CPU power, and hard drive space to service your VMs. VMs are perfect for test-driving operating systems, and trying out configuration changes in a safe space before rolling them out on your physical computer.
What Is Arch Linux, and How Is It Different From Other Versions of Linux?

2 months ago | howtogeek.com | Dave McKay

Arch is an independent distribution with a rolling release model and no corporate involvement. Arch delivers a lean and minimal installation, requiring manual setup of desktop environments and packages. Installing, using, and maintaining Arch Linux has a steep learning curve, but the ArchWiki serves as a comprehensive and reliable resource for users. Arch Linux might be the most misunderstood of all the Linux distributions.
What Is rclone on Linux and What Can You Do With It?

2 months ago | howtogeek.com | Dave McKay

Rclone was inspired by rsync. It's designed to move data to cloud storage platforms. Rclone supports over 90 cloud platforms, and is easily configured to synchronize your local drive with your cloud storage. Rclone lets you copy and synchronize files and directories, and has a two-way sync in beta. We’re always advised that we need to make regular backups, to different media, and with one copy offsite. The Linux rclone command is an easy way to create and maintain offsite backups.
Why I Ditched Multiple Note-Taking Subscriptions for Notion

2 months ago | howtogeek.com | Dave McKay

Evernote has great note creation and search capabilities, but a slow roll-out of fixes and very restricted free version made me wary of Evernote's new owners. Standard Notes has features comparable to Evernote, like web clippers and no note size limits, but importing my notes from Evernote didn't have a happy ending. Notion offers far more than simple note-taking, with a variety of features such as project management. It also offers a painless migration from Evernote.
Remember These 5 apt Clean Up Utilities for Your Next Spring Cleaning

Jan 15, 2025 | howtogeek.com | Dave McKay

If space is getting tight on your Ubuntu system drive, try these commands to find and automatically remove unnecessary installation files. It only takes a moment, and it recovers valuable hard drive real estate. A Primer on the apt Package Manager There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and there’s more than one way to install software onto an Ubuntu Linux computer. You can use the apt and apt-get commands to install DEB files, or you can use Snaps or Flatpaks.
2025 Won't Be the Year of the Linux Desktop Either. So What?

Jan 5, 2025 | howtogeek.com | Dave McKay

If you’re still waiting for the Year of the Linux desktop, give up. Linux is never going to threaten Windows’ desktop share. The good news is, for Linux, that’s a pointless metric. The Myth of the Year of the Linux Desktop 2024 wasn’t the fabled Year of the Linux desktop and, spoiler alert, neither will 2025. Globally, Linux only just breaks the four percent mark of desktop operating systems. Linux will never threaten Windows’ dominance of the desktops.
These 12 systemctl Commands Will Let You Take Control of Linux systemd Services

Dec 7, 2024 | howtogeek.com | Dave McKay

The systemctl command has some frequently overlooked functionality. In addition to starting and stopping Linux services, you can list the installed services, and check what state they’re in. Here’s a quick run-through. What Is the systemctl Command? The systemctl command is the central management tool for the systemd init system, probably best known as the tool used to start and stop services. But there’s more to it than that, as evidenced by its man page being over 1600 lines in length.
What Is the Linux Kernel, and Why Does It Matter?

Nov 30, 2024 | howtogeek.com | Dave McKay

An operating system's kernel manages resources, handles system calls, governs hardware access, and controls processes. The Linux kernel was started as a way to overcome the licensing limitations of MINIX, and to let Linus Torvalds learn to program the 80386 CPU. The Linux kernel, once it was paired with the GNU utilities, produced a working Unix-like operating system. If there was no kernel, there'd be no Linux as we know it.