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1 - 2022-09-22 daily build of the Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc6
You can now install the daily Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc6 in Ubuntu!

You can now install the daily Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc6 in Ubuntu!

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Hi everyone, Today, we got a successful build of the Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc6 in the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel HTTP website. This means we can now install it manually in our systems without the need to build it manually. The changelog for the changes since the main Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc6 seem to indicate that the Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc7 will include some fixes for the High Definition Audio interface (HDA) on some machines. These are already in this daily version. Specifically, the…

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Redbox Kiosks
Movies added and coming soon at Redbox – September 20, 2022

Movies added and coming soon at Redbox – September 20, 2022

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Hi everyone, Today is the third Tuesday of September 2022. Today, we are getting 2 movies on DVD. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD Movies Coming Soon This list may be incomplete, and titles may be added or removed at any time. September 23rd September 27th September 30th October 4th October 11th October 18th Coming Later What will you be watching this week? Post Views: 1

01 - EVGA Geforce GTX 1060 Superclocked
EVGA will not make next-generation Graphics Cards. A look at my EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Superclocked

EVGA will not make next-generation Graphics Cards. A look at my EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Superclocked

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Hi everyone, EVGA is reportedly quitting the graphics card market and will not make next-generation cards. With the NVidia GeForce 40-series reveal right around the corner, those who wish to upgrade their cards must make the switch to a new GPU vendor, like ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, PNY, and Zotac. I myself got my first EVGA card back in 2016. It is the EVGA GeForce 1060 3GB Superclocked version that costed just about $200 dollars at that moment. This GPU is…

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Linux CPU governor set to Performance
Changing the CPU Governor to Performance in Linux

Changing the CPU Governor to Performance in Linux

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Hi everyone, In this post, I’ll show you how to change the CPU governor in Linux to the Performance mode. This will allow your machine to run to its full potential as the CPU will be running to its maximum supported clock regardless of the load. Normally, we can choose between these CPU scaling governors: Therefore, if we want to get the maximum performance, we should use the performance governor. Some Linux distributions may also use another governor called schedutil…

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4 - Standard USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller
Changing our Virtual Machine USB Controller Model from qemu-xhci to nec-xhci

Changing our Virtual Machine USB Controller Model from qemu-xhci to nec-xhci

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Hi everyone, In this post, we will change our Virtual Machine USB Controller from the default qemu-xhci model to nec-xhci. After attempting to pass a USB Audio Class 2.0 device using the generic Standard QEMU XHCI controller, I was having some sound issues, particularly with constant pops and distortions while bistreaming audio. After checking for solutions, it seems we can use the nec-xhci controller. This is what I did, and it fixed the sound issues I was having. Before doing…

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4 - Host BIOS passed to the QEMU/KVM Windows VM
Passing the BIOS information from our PC to our QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine

Passing the BIOS information from our PC to our QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine

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Hi everyone, In this post, we will see how simple it is to pass our physical machine BIOS information to our QEMU/KVM Windows Virtual Machine. Apparently, this is a way some software checks to see if it is running behind a VM and adding a simple line of configuration will pass our real machine BIOS info to the VM, so the software will read the real info rather than the one from the virtualized BIOS. Here’s an image from CPU-Z…

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1 - Ubuntu Boot with Splash Screen enabled
Disabling the Ubuntu Splash Screen / Show log during boot

Disabling the Ubuntu Splash Screen / Show log during boot

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Hi everyone, In this post, we’ll see how to disable the Ubuntu splash screen and enable showing the boot log when we start our machines. This is useful because it allow you to watch the system initializing instead of just showing the splash screen. These instructions should work for any system that uses GRUB as its bootloader. I’m using Ubuntu 22.10. To disable the Ubuntu splash screen, we must edit the GRUB configuration file found at /etc/default/grub. I will use…

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Linux Virtual Machine Manager Interface
TPM Passthrough in Linux Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)

TPM Passthrough in Linux Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)

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Hi everyone, Today, we will see how to pass our TPM (Trusted Platform Module) from our machine to our QEMU/KVM virtual machine using the Virtual Machine Manager tool. We will also modify an AppArmor configuration file to allow access to it. This is needed mostly if you plan on using Windows 11 as a virtual machine, unless you use a method to patch a Windows 11 ISO image in order to install it. Once Windows 11 is installed, the TPM…

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Redbox Kiosks
Movies added and coming soon at Redbox – September 13, 2022

Movies added and coming soon at Redbox – September 13, 2022

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Hi everyone, Today is the second Tuesday of September 2022. Today, we are getting 4 movies on DVD and 2 Blu-Ray. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD Blu-Ray Movies Coming Soon This list may be incomplete, and titles may be added or removed at any time. September 20th September 23rd September 27th September 30th October 4th Coming Later What will you be watching this week? Post Views: 10

08 - Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc5 running
Installing the Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc5 in Ubuntu

Installing the Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc5 in Ubuntu

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Hi everyone, Yesterday, the Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc5 was released. This kernel is mostly a bug fix release. Unfortunately, this release failed to build for the amd64 architecture on the Ubuntu Kernel Team site, but the good news is that today’s daily build succeeded, and we can download and install it in our Ubuntu system. Because the kernel failed to build for the official 6.0.0-rc5 release, we cannot install it via the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Instaler tool. Instead, we must download…

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