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CPU-Z Ram (Memory) Details Explained – Frequency and Timings

Silver Moon — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 10:36:03 +0000

CPU-Z is a very popular system profiling tool for windows that provides details about various hardware components including cpu, ram, motherboard and graphics card. If you want to quickly check the make, model, brand or specifications of the hardware components on your machine, then cpu-z will show those details right away. It is not as... Read More »

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How to use Multipass on Windows to create Ubuntu virtual machines

Silver Moon — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 04:35:18 +0000

Multipass is a tool used to generate cloud-style Ubuntu VMs quickly on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It's designed for developers who want a fresh Ubuntu environment with a single command. It uses KVM on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows, and HyperKit on macOS to run the VM with minimal overhead. The tool gives you a simple... Read More »

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10 Common Video codecs and How to use them in FFmpeg

Silver Moon — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:30:42 +0000

FFmpeg can work with a lot of different codecs for both encoding and decoding video files. It is used as a backend by video editors like Shotcut and media processing library frameworks like MLT Multimedia Framework. In this post we shall take a look at some of the most commonly used video codecs, their features... Read More »

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How to convert HDR video to SDR with ffmpeg

Silver Moon — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 09:08:07 +0000

HDR vs SDR HDR (High Dynamic Range) is the newer and more advanced version of display technology that shows more colorful and brighter pictures on displays that support it. It is much superior to its predecessor SDR. Videos in HDR format use 10-bits for storing color information and use different color transfer functions compared to... Read More »

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5 Software Tools to check RAM timings on Windows

Silver Moon — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 06:58:23 +0000

Ram Timings are an important part of the ram specifications. They look like a series of number like this: 22-22-22-52. These timing numbers indicate how fast or slow the ram would perform in conjunction with the cpu. Higher timings indicate that the ram takes more time to internal operations, and is slower. Lower timings mean... Read More »

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How to plot and monitor CPU temperature graph on Windows

Silver Moon — Tue, 23 May 2023 11:32:40 +0000

If you want to monitor the temperature of your cpu while running some intensive application you can plot the graph and see it in realtime. This is often done to benchmark the efficiency of the cooling system and the thermal performance of the cpu. In this article we take a quick look at some tools... Read More »

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Get Started with Linux on Windows with WSL – A Beginners Guide

Silver Moon — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 09:04:14 +0000

Have you ever tried using Linux in Windows? If you do, then you need to use virtualization. Alternatively, you can do a dual-boot, which lets you use only one operating system at a time. Meet Windows Subsystem for Linux. This new Windows feature lets you access Linux directly from Windows. In this article, we'll go... Read More »

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How to Install PyOpenGL on Windows 10

Silver Moon — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 09:21:34 +0000

PyOpenGL is an python module that implements OpenGL functions in python allowing you to write OpenGL applications using Python. With OpenGL you are able to write applications that use "GPU acceleration". So if you have an Nvidia RTX 3060 gpu on your system, the opengl functions will use it to render the 3D graphics on... Read More »

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BIOS, UEFI and the Boot process Explained along with MBR and GPT

Silver Moon — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 12:34:49 +0000

What are UEFI and BIOS These are specifications that describe and define how the system firmware should work to initialize the hardware and load the OS. In old systems we had the IBM PC "derived" BIOS implementations. Its the blue screen interface that you enter by pressing the Del/F2 keys just AFTER system power has... Read More »

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Generate ssh keys on windows 8

Silver Moon — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:04:40 +0000

SSH If you are using an ssh client on windows to control a remote webserver and want to setup passwordless logins then you need to create ssh keys. The puttygen command from the putty suite can be used to generate keys in both putty and openssh formats. Download the puttygen program from the following url... Read More »

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How to setup an ftp server on windows 8

Silver Moon — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:56:02 +0000

Ftp Ftp servers can be used to transfer files to a web server or download files from a web server. Windows 8 has an inbuilt ftp server that can be used to do this. Setting up the inbuilt ftp server of windows 8 requires more steps than installing a 3rd party ftp server. However we... Read More »

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