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Let's fix another problem. This is a big one, and technically speaking, the most important one. Because if you intend to use Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop system, like I do, then hardware acceleration is a critical component of the overall experience.What this translates to, in layman's terms: smooth video playback with low system resource utilization and less heating. MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES WITH FPS CREATOR WMIC - THE WINDOWS SECRET WEAPON - DEDOIMEDOSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COM VIRTUALBOX & NAT NETWORK CONFIGURATION TUTORIALSEE MORE ONDEDOIMEDO.COM
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Let's fix another problem. This is a big one, and technically speaking, the most important one. Because if you intend to use Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop system, like I do, then hardware acceleration is a critical component of the overall experience.What this translates to, in layman's terms: smooth video playback with low system resource utilization and less heating. MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES WITH FPS CREATOR WMIC - THE WINDOWS SECRET WEAPON - DEDOIMEDOSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COM VIRTUALBOX & NAT NETWORK CONFIGURATION TUTORIALSEE MORE ONDEDOIMEDO.COM
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HOW TO UNINSTALL WINE APPLICATIONS Tutorial showing how to remove Windows software installed in Linux using WINE, including 32-bit and 64-bit uninstaller, manual removal and registry changes, other tips and tricks, and more I WANTED TO TRY WINDOWS DEFENDER APPLICATION GUARD Application Guard is designed for enterprises, well much like the other two security solutions, and so it requires at least Windows 10 Pro, unlike the other two solutions, and that's something I didn't have on my test machine. I knew my attempt was going to fail. But I wanted to complete my testing session and write this article, becausethere
HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE Step 1: Create a copy of the default system theme. Step one is to copy the default theme (Ambiant MATE) from /usr/share/themes into your homedirectory, into the
THE REAL REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT USE FACEBOOK Reason 1: Because everyone else is. You don't want to be a mindless borg. Being average is the worst curse that can befall a thinking man. Unless you wish to wear Crocs all your life and pay off the mortgage for your dream home, you should rethink your habits vis-a-vis what the plebes are doing. If everyone else is using Facebook, you have an DEDOIMEDO - A PLACE TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT A LOTCOMPUTERSGAMESWORLDARTBOOKSCARS Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you will find on the Web, on a wide range of topics, including operating systems, application reviews,security, and more
RPI4 & UBUNTU MATE
Let's fix another problem. This is a big one, and technically speaking, the most important one. Because if you intend to use Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop system, like I do, then hardware acceleration is a critical component of the overall experience.What this translates to, in layman's terms: smooth video playback with low system resource utilization and less heating. MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES WITH FPS CREATOR WMIC - THE WINDOWS SECRET WEAPON - DEDOIMEDOSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COM VIRTUALBOX & NAT NETWORK CONFIGURATION TUTORIALSEE MORE ONDEDOIMEDO.COM
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RPI4 & UBUNTU MATE
Let's fix another problem. This is a big one, and technically speaking, the most important one. Because if you intend to use Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop system, like I do, then hardware acceleration is a critical component of the overall experience.What this translates to, in layman's terms: smooth video playback with low system resource utilization and less heating. MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES WITH FPS CREATOR WMIC - THE WINDOWS SECRET WEAPON - DEDOIMEDOSEE MORE ON DEDOIMEDO.COM VIRTUALBOX & NAT NETWORK CONFIGURATION TUTORIALSEE MORE ONDEDOIMEDO.COM
HOW TO VIEW AND CONVERT KFX FILES IN CALIBRE HOW TO UNINSTALL WINE APPLICATIONS HOW TO EMBED SUBTITLES USING VLC HOW TO REMOVE HIDDEN VIRTUAL CD (VCD) PARTITIONS ON YOURSEE MORE ONDEDOIMEDO.COM
RIGHT-CLICK PROBLEM ON LENOVO TOUCHPADS PLAY OPENTTD WITH HD GRAPHICS Article showing how to enjoy HD graphics in Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (OpenTTD), a superb business and tycoon game, using abase and zbase graphics packs, in-game menu download and configuration, compatibility with old game saves, tons of lovely screenshots, andmore
GNOME 40 - THE ANTI-DESKTOP DESKTOP - DEDOIMEDO Gnome 40 - The anti-desktop desktop. In a few weeks, Fedora 34 will be released, and alongside it - you will get to use Gnome 40, the next version of this namesake desktop environments. But wait. Gnome 40 has been officially released only a few short days ago, and you can already try it. Ahead of the distro testing season, I thought it wouldbe
LIBREOFFICE SAVE ERROR What I'm going to talk about today used to be a big problem in the past. There was a bug in version 4.X of LibreOffice, which would lead to weird save errors, causing people to lose data and whatnot. Now, since this is a thing of past, you might not consider it relevant anymore to your daily usage. HOW TO CUSTOMIZE MICROSOFT OFFICE INSTALLATIONS Download setup files. Launch the command line, change directory to where the actual setup.exe resides, and run: setup.exe /download \path\to\configuration.xml. If setup.exe and configuration.xml are in the same folder, you can just run: setup.exe /download configuration.xml. This command will grab the files from the Web, andplace them into a
GOOGLE CHROME AW, SNAP! ERROR Short tutorial explaining how to work around the Aw, Swap! problem in latest version of Google Chrome on Windows 7 by temporarily disabling the internal sandboxing mechanism, with additional tips on security, including Microsoft EMET toolkit and Notscripts browser extension HOW TO INSTALL DIRECTX IN LINUX USING WINE To get DirectX running, you will need a long list of DLLs listed. The first step is to click on the New override dropdown box icon and expand the list. Search for the d3d8 DLL. Once found, click Add . It will be added to the Existing overrides list like this: d3d8(builtin,native) .
HOW TO UNINSTALL WINE APPLICATIONS Tutorial showing how to remove Windows software installed in Linux using WINE, including 32-bit and 64-bit uninstaller, manual removal and registry changes, other tips and tricks, and more I WANTED TO TRY WINDOWS DEFENDER APPLICATION GUARD Application Guard is designed for enterprises, well much like the other two security solutions, and so it requires at least Windows 10 Pro, unlike the other two solutions, and that's something I didn't have on my test machine. I knew my attempt was going to fail. But I wanted to complete my testing session and write this article, becausethere
HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE Step 1: Create a copy of the default system theme. Step one is to copy the default theme (Ambiant MATE) from /usr/share/themes into your homedirectory, into the
THE REAL REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT USE FACEBOOK Reason 1: Because everyone else is. You don't want to be a mindless borg. Being average is the worst curse that can befall a thinking man. Unless you wish to wear Crocs all your life and pay off the mortgage for your dream home, you should rethink your habits vis-a-vis what the plebes are doing. If everyone else is using Facebook, you have an DEDOIMEDO - A PLACE TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT A LOTCOMPUTERSGAMESWORLDARTBOOKSCARS Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you will find on the Web, on a wide range of topics, including operating systems, application reviews,security, and more
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WORKERS & RESOURCES: SOVIET REPUBLIC AIRCRAFT GUIDE Guide explaining how to set up airports and aircraft manufacturing industry in Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, an economy and transport tycoon game, including aircraft parking lots, terminal connections, runways and taxiways, air traffic efficiency, tourism,export, and more
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Let's fix another problem. This is a big one, and technically speaking, the most important one. Because if you intend to use Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop system, like I do, then hardware acceleration is a critical component of the overall experience.What this translates to, in layman's terms: smooth video playback with low system resource utilization and less heating. HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE MANAGE ARMA II MODS WITH PLAY WITHSIX Using Play withSIX. Different tabs in your interface let you browse games and mods and look for available servers. As you can see, ArmA II comes with a whole load of available mods, with DayZ perhaps being the most popular at the moment, but you can also search for other mods and play them. For example, the Finnish forces or Invasion 1944. MY SIMCITY 4 REGION IS COMPLETE! My SimCity 4 region is complete! Updated: October 24, 2011. SimCity 4 is a superb city building simulation, quite likely the best ever made. Not only does it allow you total freedom in your design, individual cities in a given region all become interconnected, creating a metropolis. The more complex your road network and industry, thebetter.
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Let's fix another problem. This is a big one, and technically speaking, the most important one. Because if you intend to use Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop system, like I do, then hardware acceleration is a critical component of the overall experience.What this translates to, in layman's terms: smooth video playback with low system resource utilization and less heating. HOW TO SET BLACK FONTS IN UBUNTU MATE MANAGE ARMA II MODS WITH PLAY WITHSIX Using Play withSIX. Different tabs in your interface let you browse games and mods and look for available servers. As you can see, ArmA II comes with a whole load of available mods, with DayZ perhaps being the most popular at the moment, but you can also search for other mods and play them. For example, the Finnish forces or Invasion 1944. MY SIMCITY 4 REGION IS COMPLETE! My SimCity 4 region is complete! Updated: October 24, 2011. SimCity 4 is a superb city building simulation, quite likely the best ever made. Not only does it allow you total freedom in your design, individual cities in a given region all become interconnected, creating a metropolis. The more complex your road network and industry, thebetter.
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KRUNNER - NOT AI BUT AN ACTUALLY USEFUL DESKTOP HELPER TOOL Krunner is a multi-purpose application launcher built into the Plasma desktop. Fact. What makes it worthy of mention, you may ask? Well, first, because it's good. Really good. We talked about it in the past, and then I also did separate review of two other launchers of similar nature, both of which WMIC - THE WINDOWS SECRET WEAPON - DEDOIMEDO wmic /node:SERVER1 printer list status. This is the full command, and what it does is checks the status of printers connected to a host called SERVER1. The /node switch is used to establish connection to the host and then query it with the relevant command. Note: In general, uppercase is ignored, so you can use only lowercase if youneed.
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Firefox refuses to become default browser (Plasma, neon) Updated: April 11, 2020 | Category: Internet Remember my neon escapade with the Network Manager? Turns out, this wasn't the only bugbear I had to face that day. As part of my VPN testing procedure, I also copied a hardened browser profile from Kubuntu into neon, in order to save some time. I wasn't in the mood in having to reconfigure everything, from adblocking to user agent, popup blocking, WebRTC tweaks, and alike. Indeed, one of the elegant things about Firefox is that you can easily copy your profile between machines, and I've done this many many times in the past, with greatsuccess.
But then, Firefox started pestering me with the question whether to make it a default browser. Every launch. It would seem my selection wasn't being respected. Even worse, clicking on the Make default button in the browser preferences didn't do anything. A fix wasneeded.
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It's all in the dot file - YADM and Homeshick Updated: April 8, 2020 | Category: Linux Backups are important. Backups are crucial. Backups are love, backups are life. Over the years, I've talked about the cardinal value of keeping your data safe, and that means multiple copies, multiple locations. We also talked about how to concoct your own quick 'n' dirty setup with tar and gpg recently. That one covers both data and application settings. Speaking of the latter ... Let's expand on this some more. If you have multiple computers, reinstall systems frequently, or just like to have a consistent configuration across multiple hosts, you might be interested in a way to manage application settings. In Linux, most software keeps their configurations in hidden files inside the home directory, either at the top level (/home/username) or inside the .config sub-directory. Either way, there could be plenty of them, you want to make sure you always have a copy, and if something goes wrong, you can easily revert to a good checkpoint. Introducting YADM and Homeshick.Read more ...
Biogenesis - Play evolution Updated: April 6, 2020 | Category: Other software Molecular biology is a fascinating thing. Combine it with computers, and you get yourself a platform for studying the evolution of life. Not an easy one, and scientists worldwide have been at this problem for many years now, trying to understand and replicate the environmental conditions that led to the creation of life on Earth. If you're fascinated by the concepts of amino acids, RNA, cellular division and alike, you can partake in the discovery journey with Biogenesis, a free, cross-platform, Java-based visual microbiology simulator. The idea is simple: you get a primordial soup, and you get to control it, studying and creating organisms of your own. Sounds like good, solid educational fun. Let there be light. I mean Java.Read more ...
Manjaro 19 Kyria Gnome - Fairly well put together Updated: April 4, 2020 | Category: Linux Flashing my dope cool nerd badge. Agent Dedo, at your service. Why? Because I'm testing an Arch-based distro again. Now, over the years, Manjaro has done a great deal to distance itself from its sacrificial altar roots, and now caters to people who prefer things more desktopy. That doesn't meant it's all 4% milk and yak butter from here on, oh no. But it's steadily improving, and my impressions of yesterversionwere jolly.
But then, in the last few tests, I tried Plasma, Xfce and Cinnamon editions - not Gnome just yet. While I think it's an unnecessary toll on resources maintaining four different desktops, perhaps we might be pleasantly surprised. After all, Manjaro has always managed to sneak in cool features amidst the nerdery. My test box be Lenovo G50, with its multi-boot boogaloo. Let's commence.Read more ...
The Golden Horde, Chapter 27 Updated: April 3, 2020 | Category: Books Ignoring the wounded, Lee Qiang tuned his mind back to the fight. They had to neutralize the armor first. If they did not, they would alldie.
He tried to close his fist. It worked. He opened it. A spongy feeling, but his muscles responded. His sleeve was drenched with blood. The fabric was ripped in two places where the shrapnel had cut through. Lee Qiang rose, using his left arm to pull himself up against the greasy side of the all-terrain vehicle. The cannon breech was closed. Lonya must have reloaded a fresh shell before the Type 89 fired. Lee Qiang positioned himself behind the gunner sight, aiming the iron atthe AFV.
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(my books-only website) Network Manager says limited connectivity but everything works Updated: April 1, 2020 | Category: Linux As it turns out, breaking your system is very easy, if you set your heart and mind to it. This problem has a convoluted origin and a rather interesting solution, so bear with me. As it happens, 'twas a dark and rainy night, and I set about testing several VPN services. One of them: Mullvad. It worked fine for a while, but then I upgraded the application version from the 2019.1 build to 2019.8 build, and things stopped working fine. Whenever I'd connect to VPN, DNS resolution would stop. Test box: Kubuntu 18.04. I wasn't sure if this was specific to my host or a wider problem, so I decided to test in KDE neon, too, which happens to be one of the many distros I have installed on the G50 laptop. A reboot or two later, lots of nice Plasma updates (going up to 5.16.90 at the time of writing), and some small tweaks, I had Mullvad running fine. But then, the Network Manager started to complain about limited connectivity. Let's see what gives.Read more ...
OCRFeeder - Where images go to text Updated: March 30, 2020 | Category: Office Recently, finding really cool, new, unique Linux software has become a difficult task. A chore. And by recently, I actually meant these past four or five years, even since the slow decline of enthusiasm and innovation in the desktop space started. After all, there's a limit to how much good stuff can exist in a finite volume of intellect, but let's not forget the wrong shift of focus to mobile and the shattering of the year-of-the-Linux dream. This makes my test of a four-year-old piece of software named OCRFeeder valid, I think. For two reasons. If it's good, it's good. Second, I've always been interested in the progress of optical character recognition, and whether our tools (read AI) can do a reasonable job here. I wrote about this in detail a while back, and then reviewed YAGF in 2015. Now, let's have a look at OCRFeeder and what it can do. After me, brave Linux warriors.Read more ...
Arcolinux - Too much, too little Updated: March 28, 2020 | Category: Linux Walking the Tux road, one system at a time. A short while back, I thought a departure from the proven mainstream dozen distros would do me some fresh good. So I grabbed Solus OS, I tested Peppermint, and now, I'd like to embark on an Arch adventure. Previously known as ArchMerge, Arcolinux is a distro that obeys Monty Python's rule of three. Three shall be the number of versions, and the number of desktop environments shall be three. Not two, not four. ArcoLinux has the main edition plus D and B builds for tinkerers. I opted for the Xfce-clad 19.12 release. Without further ado, let's seewhat gives.
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The Golden Horde, Chapter 26 Updated: March 27, 2020 | Category: Books "Maybe you use some of that gay charm to talk our way out of this?" Lee Qiang put a hand on Lip's shoulder and loved the fact the man flinched ever so subtly. "Not sure if that’s going to work here, but thank you for your suggestion."There was a bridge.
Flowing lazily under it, the Volga River. Guarding both banks was a shady bunch of troops in mismatched camo and a serious stock of weapons.Read more ...
(my books-only website) Asus Vivobook - Long in the tooth, going strong Updated: March 25, 2020 | Category: Hardware , Linux Over the past several months, you've read my Slimbook combat reports, detailing my real, production-level use of a Linux-only laptop for serious stuff. But this is not the first time I've utilized a Linux machine for actual desktop work. There was the eeePC, a journey-hardened beast. And then, we also have an age-weathered 2013-vintage Asus Vivobook, which has served loyally in this capacityfor several years.
For almost five years, the laptop ran the most excellent Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, and it did well, at home and abroad, in known and unknown locations. It was always utterly stable, the keyboard is amazing, the battery life has always been decent even if the performance isn't that stellar. The only complaint would be a somewhat weak Wireless signal compared to most other machines. Several months ago, come the end of Trusty LTS, I upgraded the system to Bionic, and installed Unity and Plasma desktops. In this article, I want to tell you how the Ultrabook fared in so-called "combat" conditions since. After me.Read more ...
Calibre - a high-caliber software for anything e-book Updated: March 23, 2020 | Category: Office What makes for a really good program? The usual suspects would be efficiency, stability and great functionality. But what about the frequency of use? Well, not if Calibre has anything to do with it. Because this is an application that I use relatively sparingly, and yet, it's an immensely useful, possibly even irreplaceable tool when you need to do any sort of e-book work. For authors, doubly so. Being one, ergo hint, ipso facto, then perhaps it's time for a review. I've been using Calibre for years now - I've even written a short tutorial on how to convert KFX files a while back, but so far, I have failed to write a full, proper review. Because it's not just a program to convert among different e-book formats. It's so much more. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's begin.Read more ...
Open-Shell - Classic Shell Reborn, and pretty neat too Updated: March 21, 2020 | Category: Windows Some weeks ago, I encountered the Windows 10 black-screen search bug while setting up a new computer, just before I managed to put in the tweak that disables any sort of online search functionality. This was a silly bug that shouldn't have happened, and a day later, I would have missed it. But it got me thinking. Maybe it's time to re-exploreClassic Shell?
Classic Shell was the one tool that allowed me to use Windows 8, without having to go through the chromosomally challenged full-screen Start Screen that was supposed to be the new rage of touchified nonsense in the desktop space. Then, I discovered that Classic Shell had ceased development. But there's a fork available, called Open-Shell, and it's also supposed on Windows 10. So I startedtesting.
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The Golden Horde, Chapter 25 Updated: March 20, 2020 | Category: Books Yefim had rhotacism. Back in Poland, when Lee Qiang had been growing up, such a speech impediment would have earned a child a lifetime worth of beating. Probably in all the Slavic countries. The fact Yefim was still very much healthy and alive in Sector 8 meant the childhood bullying hadprepared him well.
They sat in the man's house, in what would technically be the living room, drinking too-sweet tea from small crystal glasses. It wassurreal.
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(my books-only website) Integrated translations in Linux desktop - doable? Updated: March 18, 2020 | Category: Linux Here's an interesting problem slash scenario for you. The Gnome and Plasma desktop environments support online account integration to some extent. Fine. You also have fairly powerful, online-aware search tools, which let you do all sorts of complex actions, including wiki queries, mathematical calculations, application functions, and more. Krunner in Plasma is a great example. But then, you don't really get translations. If you work with several languages and you have a need for occasional linguistic sparring, this option doesn't really feature highly in Linux desktops. Or at all. Combine that with the healthy fact you have no integrated assistants (Siri, Cortana, Alexa, whatnot) that could potentially do this for you, translations are something you must either: a) do online yourself b) use a dedicated app. So I thought, is there an easy way to integrate this kind of functionality into the Linux desktop, Plasma and/or Gnome? Well, let's find out.Read more ...
FocusWriter - Text editor gone minimalistic Updated: March 9, 2020 | Category: Office A few weeks ago, I was looking around for some nice Linux software, and I came across the home page of the person who had created the Whisker Menu for Xfce. Since I really like this one - I even included it as my favorite desktop menu in the 2018 best Linux apps compilation, I was intrigued by the other software in the repertoire, and decided to do some random testing. A program called FocusWriterdrew my attention.
Well, FocusWriter is meant to be a simple, straightforward, distraction-free advanced text editor, designed to provide those using it with maximum productivity. In other words, you don't waste time managing the software, you don't waste time getting your fleeting attention span diverted, you get stuff done. Well, that's the core idea on paper. As someone who writes books, I found the concept curious and inviting. Perhaps I could be doing something more effectively? Well, let's find out.Read more ...
Cockpit - Highway to the admin zone Updated: March 7, 2020 | Category: Linux There are many Web-based admin GUI in Linux. Lots. They all have something in common - they let you monitor and manage your environment using a centralized facility. They also have something else in common, and that's the complexity of configuration. In most cases, if you like to have a robust network of hosts talking to each other, you have to sweat it. XML, JSON, events, whatever. Boring. The Cockpit Project is an integrated and easy-to-use Web-based management tool, which I happed to discover on Fedora 30 some time ago. Well. While I wasn't too impressed with what Fedora 30 had to offer me, it is a test bed for cool and new technology. So I was quite intrigued and went abed - testing. Or rather, I strapped into the cockpit, ha ha ha, hi hi he. Indeed, let's begin.Read more ...
The Golden Horde, Chapter 23 Updated: March 6, 2020 | Category: BooksDusk. Rest.
Orenburg was still there around them, a torn postcard of destruction, obscured by the wilderness. At the bottom of what looked like a dry irrigation canal, there was a convoy of abandoned cars all sunk deep in sandy ground. Plastic bags of rubbish poked through the grass, spangles of red and blue against the sunburnt carpet. Higher on the west bank, there was a bus. The rust-splotched husk was lying on its belly, the axles half-sunk into the ground, leaning slightly toward the incline. The old thing had burned down, and was mottled reddish-black all over. There was a patina of lichen-like growth climbing up its sides. Inside, the plastic chairs had melted, forming a frozen river. Even now, even with his senses dulled by illness and the ashes, he could smell the waxy,phenol stench.
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(my books-only website) VirtualBox & NAT network configuration tutorial Updated: March 4, 2020 | Category: Virtualization Several days ago, I hit an interesting problem slash snag. Well, more sort of an operational challenge that reinforced my liking for VirtualBox. Namely, I wanted to setup a small private network with several virtual machines. One machine would be a server, and others would be clients running agent software and reporting to the server. Sounds simple. Except all my NAT-ed machines were getting the same IPaddress: 10.0.2.15.
Indeed, if you're using the most basic VM setup - your machines use a single NAT adapter, and as it turns out, each machine gets the exact same IP address, even if they are running in parallel. This means you can't really have a network. Well, not this way. But there is a way. We've talked about VirtualBox network & sharing at quite some length in the past, and I'd like to show you a few more network-relatedtricks. After me.
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Peppermint 10 - Too spicy for my desktop Updated: March 2, 2020 | Category: Linux Time to Linux. With a fresh, hale air of shellshocked optimism about it. Hello? Peppermint! The namesake operating system is an Ubuntu-based flavor of Linux, clad in Xfce and meant to be friendly. At the time of writing, all was jolly, but as it happens, today, I noticed the official page throws an out-of-date certificate error, so no direct link. Not the best start either, but the stuff you're about to read has been collected and compiled in the last few weeks. Anyway, recently, my Linux compass has been pointing off. Not quite where it ought. Sad face. And yet, somehow, I find myself doing the tests again, trying to get the chakras all sorted and buffed. Let's see what Peppermint 10 can do. As always, the guinea pig is the eight-boot Lenovo G50 machine, with its assorted mess of Windows and Linux instances. Onward.Read more ...
Firefox Preview for Android - Interesting Updated: February 29, 2020 | Category: Internet After I've published my recent series of Firefox articles, mostly the review of versions 71 & 72, and the important essay on why you should be using it as your primary browser, I got a bunch of emails from readers suggesting I take Firefox Preview for a spin. This seems to be the next-gen edition of Firefox for Android, designed to be faster, lighter and more appealing, and hopefully endear a bunch of hearts toMozilla's effort.
While I'm not too keen on anything touch, I still want to be able to have a hassle-free, stupidity-free browsing experience anywhere, including the mobile, so I set about testing Firefox Preview. As the test device, I used my Motorola Moto G6 phone, which ought to be fairly representative of the kind of results we should be seeing. Letus begin, then.
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The Golden Horde, Chapter 22 Updated: February 28, 2020 | Category: Books"I have no access."
"You're taking the piss." Why did I think the enemy would be stupid and incompetent? Just because I managed to screw the lead security developer? There could be a million reasons why the system refused him entry. It was unlikely the Alliance space command changed things too often, but they just might. Security codes, protocols, ciphers—there were infinite possibilities. Lee Qiang didn't have time to indulge in self-pity. This was going to be one hell of a battle to the death.Read more ...
(my books-only website) Windows 10 essential post-installation tweaks Updated: February 26, 2020 | Category: Windows Typically, I write post-install tweak guides for Linux distributions. And yet, here I am, blithely writing one for Windows 10. The reason is, recently, I did a Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrade, and then, roughly at the same time, I bought a new desktop and had it freshly installed with Microsoft's latest operating system. Both these experiences provided me with enough data to write an article. Thisarticle.
Before you read on, my angle is as follows: I don't like low-IQ stuff. This means mobile stuff, especially when applied to the desktop. Anything touch on the desktop, don't want. Touch-optimized software is inferior to full desktop programs, and it doesn't belong on workstations where you work with the keyboard and mouse. This naturally extends to anything "online" that happens on the desktop, like tiles, Web applications, the whole drama for the common chimp. Hence, this tutorial will show you the range of different things I did to make my Windows 10 experience pleasant, efficient and quiet. Followme.
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Motorola One Zoom & Android - 28 days later Updated: February 24, 2020 | Category: Hardware It has been a few weeks since I've embarked on my One Zoom adventure - which means I'm no longer using my fabulous Lumia 950, and my touch experience focuses primarily around Android. Now, this does not mean it's a tragic or a bad experience. Far from it. I'm quite pleased with how things have turned out. I was able to tame the operating system, reduce the noise and low-IQ features, the hardware behaves well, the camera is splendid, and all in all, Android delivered reasonable, better-than-expected results. But that's early glamor. With a moon or two behind us, I had a chance to sample the phone in a series of real-life scenarios, things that you can't necessarily plan for or do in a restricted early testing set. Somewhat similar to what I've shown you with my Moto G6 and the Android road test. Now, let me share some more findings from the OneZoom usage.
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Solus 4.1 Budgie review - Me luck has run out Updated: February 22, 2020 | Category: Linux Commence to test a fresh distro. I took a short break from Linux distros after the end-of-year compilations, because overall, I felt exhausted by the indefinite products, the unpredictable outcome, the emotional seesaw of quality, brilliance and then sadness. Now, with renewed vigor (Igor with vigor, right), I'm about to set sail into the Tux waters once again. Our candidate today: Solus 4.1 Budgie. Last year, I was pleased with Solus 4.0 Fortitude. First, it was my only successful complete test with this system, after several botched attempts in the past, mostly due to bootloader problems. Second, despite the rough patches, it delivered a pretty interesting, reliable and even moderately fun setup, so much in fact, that is scored quite highly in my Best of Gnome annual summary, even though Budgie isn't technically Gnome, but then, it is. Anyway, we're testing again. Solet's begin.
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The Golden Horde, Chapter 21 Updated: February 21, 2020 | Category: Books Waiting was the hardest thing for a soldier. Waiting for sentry duty to tick away so you could go back to sleep. Waiting for the weekend pass. Waiting to hear whether you'd qualified for the next stage in the training process. Waiting for news from your family or the estranged loved one. Waiting for the enemy to do something.That was the worst.
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(my books-only website) Hard disk reliability study - 2005-2020 Updated: February 19, 2020 | Category: Hardware As you already know, I like to do long-term tests and reviews of hardware and software that I use. Over the years, I've given you my take on how different operating systems progress and change, how different laptops cope with the passage of time, and now, I want to embark on my most ambitious long-term project yet. A reliability study of hard disks. I've waited fifteen years to publish it. Because I needed time to gather data that has value to the readers. Unlike Google and Backblaze, I don't have thousands of disks buzzing in a data center, so I couldn't just provide any sort of results quickly. But I think you will find this study valuable, as it took place in my production setup, under real-life conditions most home users could or would encounter.Read more ...
Plasma 5.18 LTS review - The good, the bad ... and yeah Updated: February 17, 2020 | Category: Linux Here we go. The KDE team has released the latest version of Plasma, numbered 5.18. This also happens to be a Long Term Support (LTS) release, which in Plasma parlance means two years of support. Since I'm an avid user, and even have Plasma deployed in my production setup via Kubuntu 18.04 running on a Slimbook Pro2, it's time to set scopes on the future, and see what gives. I did my testing on Lenovo G50, which happens to be my hardware scapegoat de jour. Also, I have KDE neon installed there, Developer Edition (Stable), so I get to see all the little changes and fixes and whatnot almost as soon as they are introduced. This means I had a chance to sample Plasma 5.18 since the earliest build, and now that we have the official release, I must share me experience. Avanti.Read more ...
How to block Internet Explorer in Windows Updated: February 15, 2020 | Category: Windows Like many a techie, I've read the recent flurry of advisories on a new critical vulnerability in the Internet Explorer legacy scripting engine (jscript.dll), and how it's being actively exploited. On its own, this can happen, right. But what annoyed me was the portend of gloom and doom around the Web. Mostly panic, with very little focus on trying to analyze this problem, and see if it can be mitigated in anelegant way.
In fact, Microsoft has listed a workaround - you can deny access to the affected library. But this also causes side effects. You may see problems with printing, access to the group policy editor, and a few other issues. So I sat down and thought, is there a way to reduce the impact of the vulnerability, without actually making the system go allwonky?
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The Golden Horde, Chapter 20 Updated: February 14, 2020 | Category: BooksOrenburg...
Everyone shared the sentiment, even Lee Qiang. Crossing the no-man's-land of empty fields, flattened neighborhoods, and glassified rubble only partially covered in dirt and weed, he had felt exposed, vulnerable, impotent, feeling half a dozen scopes trailing him, making his skin itch. But no bullets came. They had settled in a less devastated part of the city, with some of the concrete and iron frames still standing, providing some cover from the wind and any chance patrols. Thorny, tough vegetation crept over everything, reclaiming what used to be its kingdom. It was hard to imagine what this city had looked like whole. It looked like a bad, deliberate prop from a war movie.Read more ...
(my books-only website) New desktop & Windows 10 - See you in 2030? Updated: February 12, 2020 | Category: Hardware How frequently should one replace their desktop systems? Every three years? Four? Five? How about nine? Indeed, with my primary desktop slowly but surely approaching its first two-digit birthday, I thought it would be prudent to buy a successor for its honorable, loyal,kickass service.
And so I went a-shoppin', and got myself a new desktop. The idea is to have a general-purpose computer that will be practical, useful, relevant, and powerful enough for all necessary tasks for a good few years. To be more precise, a full decade. Hence beginneth the adventure of my new PC. Let's see what gives.Read more ...
How to customize Microsoft Office installations - Tutorial Updated: February 10, 2020 | Category: Office Back in 2016, I bought myself a copy of Microsoft Office 2016 Pro Plus. I didn't really need it, and the actual installer sat on a proverbial shelf for about three years, collecting digital dust. Then, I did have a need, a need for office, and I ran the installer. I expected it to give me some customization options, as I was only interested in the three main programs - Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and didn't care about the rest of the suite. Lo and behold, the installer completed without asking me anything, and all the programs were set up. No. So I spent time trying to find a way to undo this nonsense and then re-setup Office with just the three applications, and the end result is this tutorial. Let me show you the rather non-trivial way of how you need to go about customized Office installations. After me.Read more ...
Open Broadcast Software Studio - Ready for the silver screen? Updated: February 8, 2020 | Category: Media Having recently tested Kdenlive 19.08 and then taken a brief but pleasant look at OpenShot, I decided to expand my cinematic horizons and explore some additional software on the media market. One program that came into the hazy spotlight is Open Broadcast Software (OBS), a free and open-source video editor, designed primarily for video recording and live streaming. Well, here I am, with me unfunny collection of Youtube clips, and here it is, OBS, waiting for me to test and review it. Sounds like a plan, and proceed so we shall. Once again, I'm back on Linux, in Kubuntu, but that shouldn't really make much difference. Anyway, let's begin.Read more ...
The Golden Horde, Chapter 19 Updated: February 7, 2020 | Category: Books The village was not marked on any map.Of course.
It was a collection of half-ruined buildings, rubbish, and rust-eaten cars. There was an old tractor in the field directly south of the house strip and its cracked road, but it was sunk half a meter deep into the hard ground. The water tower had more holes than tin. The barn had gaping holes in the roof, probably caused by mortar. Lee Qiang looked at Sveta. She just shrugged.Read more ...
(my books-only website) Useful Geany plugins, tips and tricks Updated: February 6, 2020 | Category: Linux A few months ago, in my quest to find THE text editor for Linux, I came across Geany, and it got me pleasantly surprised. It shares a lot of underlying goodness with Notepad++, my go-to text program, a Windows-only application that I nevertheless often use in various distros through WINE. Geany is powerful, efficient and versatile, and so I expanded my exploration quite some. I also got lots of emails from you, telling me about useful plugins, which I could try to improve my productivity still further, especially since I've noted Geany doesn't have all the features that its Windows counterpart boasts. Well, in this article, I'd like to share with you some of the excellent plugins as well as some other neat tricks in Geany, all of which ought to make it even more practical and fun.Let's commence.
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Fedora & root account is locked boot issue - Solution Updated: February 3, 2020 | Category: Linux Three years ago, I wrote an article that explaining how to recover from a failed boot following a major version upgrade in Fedora. At that time, I was working with Fedora 25, and suddenly, I was no longer able to get to the desktop. The issue turned out to be a buggy initramfs, which is an issue I've only encountered once in the past, back in Ubuntu, back in 2009. Since, it's been quiet. Well, the wheel of time has dumped us back at the beginning. The same issue happened again. I had (somewhat) recently upgraded an instance of Fedora 29 to Fedora 30, and lo and behold, I found myself facing the same problem. Almost. I had a black screen, and a message that said: Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked. At this point, trying to do anything didn't yield any results. I could only reboot. I did try another kernel, and this helped - I got to my desktop. While the issue seems to be similar, I had to go a slightly different way about fixing it.Read more ...
GhostBSD 20 - When there's something wrong with your Tux Updated: February 1, 2020 | Category: Other operating systems In the Linux world, Arch is the great noob equalizer. But there's an ever more frightening beast in the forest. It's BSD, and even invoking its name can send the lesser man into despair. The simple truth of the matter is, throughout the nerdy circles of the world, BSD holds a respectable place as a stable, reliable workhorse. But it's never distinguished itself as a viable desktop alternative. Over the years, I've dabbled in BSD quite some - you can check my UNIX reviews to figure out what gives. Sometimes, there would be this or that BSD flavor that surprised with its simplicity, but things would usually unravel at some point, whether it's hardware compatibility, disk-greedy partitioning, or perhaps the ease of everyday use. Then, recently, I came across GhostBSD, and it looks pretty and inviting. So let's see what gives.Read more ...
The Golden Horde, Chapter 18 Updated: January 31, 2020 | Category: Books Light at the end of the tunnel. A promise of salvation. Or a gruesome, violent death. It was amazing how quickly the human body and mind could adjust to new situations. Going into the damp darkness of the mold-smelling bunker network had felt like exploring one's own coffin. After four days of tense, numbing blackness, there was almost a peaceful sense to the underground passage. Lee Qiang knew it was his brain trying not to gomad. Now, this.
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(my books-only website) Volkswagen Polo GTI - The little big wonder Updated: January 29, 2020 | Category: Cars On the road again. On the wrong side of the road again. But there are good news, too. I had a sweet chance to lay my hands on a very nice, brand new Volkswagen Polo GTI, painted bright and shiny red, with a 2.0-liter engine under the hood, producing some 200 chipper horses. This means we will be having a nice little review right here, and tonsof great pics.
Over the years, Polo has grown quite some. Not just in physical dimensions, which it sure has, but also in its identity and the message it conveys to the buyers. It's transformed from a somewhat shy and reserved mini hatch to a mature, confident and not-too-small family car, with the robust, effortless quality and seriousness of its bigger sibling, the Golf. The latest model, Mk.6, is also the first version to include a 2.0-liter engine, which promises lots of future growth (previous Polos had smaller units). The question is, has this growth harmed the fun factor? Well, I've got me here a 2019 Polo GTI 5dr DSG model, and it's time for a road test.Read more ...
Slimbook & Kubuntu - Combat Report 12 Updated: January 27, 2020 | Category: Linux We haven't spoken about my Slimbook Pro2 system in a while. Well, there's a reason for that. A good reason. Everything is fine. Boring, I know. There's nothing sensational or controversial to report. But then, if you are thinking of buying yourself a Linux-adorned machine, you sure do want to know how robust one of these might be, and whether they can withstand the test of time, usage and real-life functionality. Which is why we're here. Now, we have done this exercise eleven times already. In the last report, we mentioned some errors and bugs, a few oddities here and there, but by and large, the Slimbook experience remains uneventful. With several more months of usage tucked under the belt, it's time topause and reflect.
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VirtualBox 6 review - Not bad, not bad at all Updated: January 25, 2020 | Category: Virtualization When it comes to virtualization - mostly semi-pro or casual usage you'd find in a typical nerd setting, VirtualBox offers an excellent bundle of goodies; a friendly UI, lots of features, reasonable performance, simple and advanced options to suit every skill and mood. I've written about VirtualBox many times in the past, reviewing a whole range of topics, from the Guest Additions configuration to sharing & port forwarding and then some. Several dozen articles to be more precise. Including major release reviews among them, of course. Recently, VirtualBox 6.X has been released, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to take a look at what's new, check some of the improvements and fixes, and see whether you should move off the 5.X branch onto the latest edition. Come along, let's see what gives.Read more ...
The Golden Horde, Chapter 17 Updated: January 24, 2020 | Category: BooksThey needed rest.
But they couldn't rest. Not yet. Lip had probably recited these numbers a dozen times to "rookie" teams over the years—a lack of sleep was a powerful enemy. A full day without sleep rendered you 15% less efficient. Two days, it was 70%. Three days, you had one in three chance of injuring yourself with your own weapon. The longer you went without rest the more dangerous it became. They were all hurt, exhausted, and have not drank or eaten enough. That made the math even more unfavorable. And then there were the wounded.Read more ...
(my books-only website) Two more sweet sites added to the Hall of Fame Updated: January 22, 2020 | Category: The good Web The Internet is getting worse by the day, but there's still some hope out there. Today, we shine light on two such examples. Number one: People take pictures, all the time, even when they shouldn't - like their restaurant food or selfies, for that matter. And they do it using all manner of devices, from lowly phones to sophisticated, expensive SLR with lenses that wouldn't shame Hubble. Indeed, if photography is more than just a social reflex to you, then you will want to know which camera to buy for your occasional visual memoirs. To wit, Digital Photography Review, or Dpreview in short, is a great resource of all things camera. Number two: Few people define the 80s better than the Gubernator: the epitome of masculinity, swagger, casual violence, and of course, the bestest one-liners in the history of cinema. Few people are better remembered for their words, be they Rennaissance philosophers or modern-day politicians. Going to cinema, or more aptly, sitting down to play some grainy VHS and watch Arnold kick ass, one would soon be exposed to scene after scene of delightful, cheesy, out-of-this-world quotes. You came looking for copper (or choppa), and you found gold.Arnoldum.
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OpenShot - If you have to ... shot, shot, don't talk Updated: January 20, 2020 | Category: Media As you probably know, my go-to video editor is Kdenlive, which I've used many times before, to great success, creating dozens of unfunny clips, all of them available on my Youtube channel. But then, I've recently had less luck with the program, having tested both 2018's beta and last year's 19.08 stable edition, and neither reallyimpressed me.
I came across bugs and crashes, and overall, it felt like the application has taken a nosedive. While older versions ought to keep working fine for quite a while longer, I wouldn't like to be in a position where my artistic spread of majestic wings is curtailed for any reasons. Hence, alternatives, hence testing. And thus, I came across an old-new title, OpenShot, a free, cross-platform video editor. Funnily, I've seen it many times before, but never really used in properly. This article shall remedy that.Read more ...
Motorola One Zoom - The Lumia is dead, long live One Updated: January 18, 2020 | Category: Hardware The end of an era. The start of a new one. I strongly believe that Windows Phone will go down into the annals of history as the most beautiful, ergonomically pleasing touch interface ever designed. But the phone support is no more (just remember the hysteria around making the desktop like this, all in vain), and I require a new mobile device. Any good story starts with a conflict. Roughly two months ago, I began me hunt for a successor phone for the Lumia 950. My requirements weren't that stringent, but they were also quite peculiar. In the end, after a good few days of online research, reading and then some more reading, I bought a Motorola One Zoom. Now, let me share the details. And if you're wondering, yes, this is a proper, long smartphone review, with a dose of dramatic prose. Afterme.
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The Golden Horde, Chapter 16 Updated: January 17, 2020 | Category: Books Lee Qiang came about to see a Chinese soldier bearing down on him. He instinctively reached for that which wasn't there; his rifle was pinned under him, the strap torn off his harness. Without thinking, Lee Qiang pulled his pistol from his thigh holster and fired a dozen rounds into the man's legs and groin. Whatever words or screams the East Alliance man may have uttered were lost in his sophisticatedhelmet-mask.
There was a whole bunch of enemy soldiers pressing toward the gap between the two Magdas. Pablo wasn't shooting at them. Pablo wasn't there anymore—just his machine gun, propped against therock.
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(my books-only website) Windows 10 upgrade (from Windows 7) - Surprisingly smooth Updated: January 15, 2020 | Category: Windows Let's start with a little teaser. I have a whole bunch of Windows 10 articles coming out in the next few weeks. They mostly revolve around the installation of new devices with the aforementioned operating system, the upgrade of old devices from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and the subsequent mandatory post-install tweaks and changes. We shall start, as the title subtly hints, with the middle option. With the Windows 7 deadline loometh (now passeth), I decided to sacrifice one of my olden Windows 7 desktops for this experiment. I mean, it wasn't a big deal - as I had contingencies in place (hint: new hardware), and with the lovely Seven going out of support (but that shouldn't scare you, right), I wanted to see what kind of future awaits anyone willing to bite the bullet and try their luck with the latest Windows version. This article is a tale of that attempt.Read more ...
Firefox 71 & 72 - Some of that old fire is back Updated: January 13, 2020 | Category: Internet Strange how things work. Apparently, people rarely learn unless they go through an experience personally, and often, even not then. Companies and organizations are much alike, so when Mozilla embarked on its Firefox revamp many years ago, it went after Chrome, and it trying to be like Chrome only made Chrome better. Fast forward, Mozilla re-discovered the meaning behind its motto, and figured that it has a golden opportunity of making its browser stand out. People are sick of getting their private info trafficked left and right by careless data vampires, and they want something ... more humane. Recent versions of Firefox seem to be doing quite all right on that front, and the last two or three releases are a great example of a champion effort. Let's see.Read more ...
Messed up laptop: Windows 10 recovery Updated: January 11, 2020 | Category: Windows All right. Just a few days back, we talked about my messed-up laptop and the subsequent recovery of the KDE neon instance in its eight-boot Windows-and-Linux setup. As it turns out, various distributions would not boot because they were configured to mount a non-existent partition. This happened because new Linux systems use a sub-optimal way of marking devices, with meaningless, human-unreadable UUID strings rather than simple numbers. Well, we need to fix the Windows 10 instance as well. Here, the issue was kind of similar. Windows 10 would start booting, then there's be a message about diagnosing PC, automatic repair - and then, predictably, the automatic repair would fail. In the previous article, we've already established that the Windows 10 partition was healthy, all the data was there, so I didn't want to do any reset or such. Let me show you how I gracefully fixed this rather annoying issue.Read more ...
The Golden Horde, Chapter 15 Updated: January 10, 2020 | Category: Books Over many tens of thousands of years, human motor skills and reflexes evolved as a response to biological threats, long before any technology made things faster than neural signals could move the muscle tissue. The average response time to a visual stimulus is about three-quarters of a second, or half that for people who are alert. That does not sound like a lot until you take into account other factors, like rocket motors. A typical anti-tank missile flies at about 250 m/s. This means it will clear about one and a half football fields in the time it takes the human brain to register and respond to a visual signal. It’s a metallic object the size of a bread loaf, jumping football field lengths as fast as you can blink. Even if you can see it coming, you have no time to react. You can't dodge missiles.Read more ...
(my books-only website) Messed up laptop: Linux recovery Updated: January 9, 2020 | Category: Linux Remember, I told you about a messed up laptop? Well, let's elaborate, shall we. I was doing some testing with imaging & recovery software, and once I was done, I wanted to see how well the process had gone. Not well, it turned out. GRUB was there, but no entry in the menu worked initially. Once I had that promptly fixed, I saw that Windows 10 wouldn't boot, and wouldn't auto-repair, and half the distros on the system (out of the total eight) in the multi-boot setup wouldn't start either, going into emergency mode. We're talking the full share of distros, take your pick. Now, the GRUB recovery was quite tricky - none of the methods I could think of worked, and I ended up installing a test distro just to get the bootloader configured properly. Then, I started one of the distros that DID work, and noticed there was no data loss. Everything was there, all the partitions were sane and whole, and the files were in their right place, Linux and Windows included. In this article, I'd like to show you how I went about this problem, and how I fixed it - and in the sequel, we shall do the same for Windows 10. A useful exercise. Follow me.Read more ...
Android road test - Touch me, touch me now Updated: January 6, 2020 | Category: Internet Back in June, I posted an article summarizing several weeks of rigorous testing of my Moto G6, coupled with extra hardened security and privacy settings. I did this to examine and evaluate the usability of Android in real-life conditions, as a preparation for the tragic and inevitable switch come the end of life of the magnificent WindowsPhone platform.
Recently, I decided to extend the testing and use Android even more stringently. Over a period of about two weeks, I used the phone in strange and wondrous places, I tried to rely on it for semi-essential needs, not that smartphones ever served more than ancillary needs for me, and I did this in parallel to my future phone purchase hunt. While you're going to read about my Lumia 950 successor shortly - it's not the Moto G6 device, that's a brave pioneer slash scapegoat - in this here be article, I'd like to walk you through my recent Android escapade. Commence we shall.Read more ...
How to make Windows 10 USB install media in Linux Updated: January 4, 2020 | Category: Linux and Windows The reason why I attempted this thing is a bit convoluted. It started, like any good story, with a problem, a conflict, a conundrum. I had a laptop with a multi-boot system, Windows 10 and a whole bunch of Linux distributions, and it was ill. Not booting. Nothing. I needed to recover it, and recover it I did, one system after another, until only Windows 10 was left and acting rather stubbornly. I thought using the Windows 10 install media could help, as I'd have better control over the recovery tools and options than using the one that Windows offers on a botched startup. This meant creating bootable media, and this turned out to be more complicated than I thought. I wanted to create the USB media in Linux, without relying on any third-party tools that purport to do this. Why? Because independence. If it works with standard tools, you can use it anywhere. Begin tocommence.
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The Golden Horde, Chapter 14 Updated: January 3, 2020 | Category: Books Lee Qiang remembered his grandfather's stories. He had been an electrical engineer working in the Middle East in the 1980s, dabbling in some rather expensive projects in Libya and Iraq, and then later, in the 1990s, in Afghanistan. Grandad would proudly boast, sober or drunk, that he'd been one of the few Polaks with a passport and an unrestricted travel visa back in the day, before the collapse of theSoviet bloc.
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(my books-only website) ArmA 3 CQB delights - Terrorist Hunt - Factory scenario Updated: January 1, 2020 | Category: Game reviews I love discovering fun, challenging scenarios in ArmA 3. This fabulous war simulation is the only shooter game really worth considering. Having played the franchise since Operation Flashpoint, I found its uncompromising realism to be an excellent form of meditation, especially after a long day of work full of IT buzzwords. One mission that drew me in recently is Terrorist Hunt - Factory, by Fin Soldier, a remake of the Rainbow Six Vegas TH gamemode. In this mission, you and up to three other human players are pitted against 28 AI enemy soldiers at a factory plant. Sounds simple, but typically, you end up outnumbered, and a relatively simple premise becomes a very tricky, difficult objective. As I learned to perfect it, I realized something. I was mimicking the real combat tactics used by professional soldiers. Follow me.Read more ...
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