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Downloading and Installing CrystalDiskMark

Downloading and Installing CrystalDiskMark

Hi everyone, Now that we installed the Samsung 870 EVO SSD to our HP 2000-2c20NR laptop, it’s time to power it up and benchmark the drive to see if realistically we can reach the drive’s mentioned read/write speeds. Before we can do the benchmark, we must download and install a benchmark tool. In this case, we will use the popular benchmark tool CrystalDiskMark. This is a free utility widely used to benchmark hard disk drives and solid state disks. This…

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Releasing flac_recompressor Python Script

Releasing flac_recompressor Python Script

Hi everyone, In the past few days, I’ve been working on a script that will attempt to get the smallest FLAC file size possible. I’ve been playing around several FLAC encoder options and determined that by changing the block size, it is possible to get a smaller file size. However, it seems that depending on the audio file, we may need to use try different block size combination in order to get the smallest size, and this is what this…

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Installing Wine from WineHQ in Ubuntu 23.04

Installing Wine from WineHQ in Ubuntu 23.04

Hi everyone, Today, we will be installing Wine from the WineHQ repository in Ubuntu 23.04. Wine is a compatibility layer that allow us to run Windows software on Linux. It is not an emulator nor a virtualization software. It simply translates the binary to Linux-compatible POSIX API call to allow the execution of them. In Windows, Microsoft added the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). There are currently 2 versions: WSL1 and WSL2. WSL1 can be considered the opposite of Wine,…

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

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

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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Installing the Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc5 in Ubuntu

Installing the Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc5 in Ubuntu

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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You can now install the Linux Kernel 6.0-rc3 in Ubuntu with the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer tool

You can now install the Linux Kernel 6.0-rc3 in Ubuntu with the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer tool

Hi everyone, While the latest Linux Kernel is currently at the 6.0-rc4 version, now we can install the Linux Kernel 6.0-rc3 in our Ubuntu Linux systems. The 6.0-rc4 version failed to compile, and is the reason why it’s not listed in the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer tool, but at least we can now install the packages of the 6.0-rc3 version with it. To install it, you must first enable the installation of unstable kernels in the tool. For this, click…

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Installing and using pulseaudio-dlna with the Hiby R3 family of Audio devices

Installing and using pulseaudio-dlna with the Hiby R3 family of Audio devices

Hi everyone, In this post, we’ll see how to install the pulseaudio-dlna package and use it. DLNA is a protocol that may allow special devices and software to connect to a media server, playback a file, act as a media controller, or be one or more of these. Some routers have a DLNA feature built-in allowing the use of the USB port to host a USB drive in order to allow these software to find and playback your multimedia files….

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Installing Daily Ubuntu Linux Kernels manually (And the Linux Kernel 6.0rc1)

Installing Daily Ubuntu Linux Kernels manually (And the Linux Kernel 6.0rc1)

Hi everyone, In this post, I will show you how to install the daily builds of the Linux Kernel from the Ubuntu Kernel Team Server site. Last week, we got the very first Linux Kernel 6.0 release. It is the first Release Candidate, but this kernel failed to build for the amd64 architecture. This means that we can’t install it using the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer tool. Luckily, the Ubuntu Kernel Team does daily builds, and it seems there are…

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Workaround for Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer to install the Linux Kernel 5.19.2

Workaround for Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer to install the Linux Kernel 5.19.2

Hi everyone, The Linux Kernel 5.19.2 was released on Wednesday, August 17, 2022. This kernel is a maintenance release that mainly brings some improvements and bug fixes. As usual, we should be able to install this kernel in Ubuntu with the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer tool, but when you open the app, you’ll notice that all of the Linux Kernels disappeared from the list, looking like this: This has to do with the fact that the very first release candidate…

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Starting up the PulseAudio Service manually in Ubuntu 22.10

Starting up the PulseAudio Service manually in Ubuntu 22.10

Hi everyone, You may recall the post I wrote about installing WirePlumber a few weeks ago. This was because Ubuntu 22.10 will switch to using the PipeWire audio server as the default, replacing PulseAudio. However, there are still some packages that may depend on the actual PulseAudio service due to its implementation. An example of this is the pulseaudio-dlna package, which uses PulseAudio to add DLNA renderers as sound output devices. Therefore, we must start this service manually in Ubuntu…

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