In a previous post we already discussed about UEFI and BIOS and how the boot process work with each of them. Now in this post we shall take a look at the partition table formats, namely MBR and GPT. They basically define data structure formats that hold partition information on the drive. Without the partition… Read More »
IndigoBench IndigoBench is a free and simple tool from Indigo Renderer that uses OpenCL api based library to render graphics using gpu acceleration. It renders an image and then calculates a score based on the performance. This score can be compared with other users in their online benchmark database. This tool is very simple and… Read More »
Kubuntu / Ubuntu 23.04 I am running Kubuntu 23.04 with Plasma desktop. You can check your ubuntu version with the lsb_release command: silver@ubuntussd:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 23.04 Release: 23.04 Codename: lunar silver@ubuntussd:~$ The interesting thing this time is that kubuntu has been installed on an external… Read More »
Un-allocated space is that disk space which is not inside any partition and is lying free. This space cannot be formatted to a file-system without first creating a partition in it. In order to use the space in unallocated space, you must either create a new partition in that space, or merge the space with… Read More »
“ls” (list directory contents) is one of the most commonly used commands in Linux. The command displays a list of all the files and directories in the current directory. It is one of the very first commands one should learn when new to Linux. The command is quite popular, works well enough, and can be… Read More »
In production database setups, mysql replication is commonly used to duplicate a single database over many database servers. The primary database is referred to as the master database, while the other replicated databases are referred to as slave databases. To put it another way, we can use it to duplicate a database. Replication is used… Read More »
Sysbench is a command line utility program available on linux that can be used to conduct different types of benchmark tests to measure performance of disk io, memory, cpu and mysql database. In another article we learned how to use sysbench to . In this particular article we take a quick look at how we… Read More »
Tcpdump is a command-line tool for capturing and analyzing network packets in Linux. Basically its a packet sniffer that also breaks them down into easy to read format for human beings. It can be a powerful tool for troubleshooting network connectivity issues by analyzing the network traffic on a system. Tcpdump works by listening for… Read More »
USB ports and devices come in a variety of speeds like USB 2.0 (480 Mbps), USB 3.0 ( 5 Gbps), USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) and so on. When you connect a device to your system on a usb port for the purpose of data transfer (for example an external ssd or hdd) you… Read More »
Qemu+kvm is an excellent free virtualisation solution for linux host systems. It can run any gui operating system pretty much like virtualbox or vmware. KVM provides virtualised access to cpu and memory whereas qemu emulates other hardware components like disk drives. Together they provide a complete solution to launch a virtual machine that a user… Read More »
Wget Command ‘Wget’ is developed as a part of the GNU Project. You can use it to download/extract data and content from web servers. Its name is a combination of the “www” and the word get. It supports downloading over multiple protocols like FTP, SFTP, HTTP and HTTPS. Wget is written in c and can… Read More »
Inside your computer there is something called a USB Controller which is an IC chip that enables the system to use usb technology and transfer data across compatible devices. What are Internal HUBs and Internal Ports Now a USB Controller (inside the computer) is connected to an “INTERNAL HUB” (again somekind of ic chip) which… Read More »
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 »
So in this post we shall be doing some benchmark tests on a crucial internal ssd using an external usb enclosure. Enclosures are a great option to turn an internal ssd into and external portable ssd, or just connect an internal ssd on a different machine for data transfer. The ssd model used is: CT1000MX500SSD1… Read More »
I recently got a Asus TUF A17 Gaming laptop and started playing games like Fortnite and Forza Horizon on it. Using MSI Afterburner to monitor the performance, the thermals were not performing very well. The CPU temps stayed at peak levels of 94-95 C when playing fortnite with clock speeds at 4025+ Mhz. Though Ryzen… Read More »
So i recently got a seage one touch 5tb hdd to store my gameplay recordings. The exact model is this: STKZ5000401 In this post we shall be doing some speed tests on this drive to see how it performs. This is a usb connected external hdd, and uses USB 3.0 interface (which is also usb… Read More »
So recently i was watching some movies on my Acer Aspire 5 and realised that the experience was not nice. Of course the movie played very well, but the audio and video quality was actually very subpar. When watching movies the only 2 most important things are the picture and sound quality. I tried to… Read More »
rsync (remote synchronization) is a command-line tool for transferring and synchronizing files and directories locally and remotely in Linux. In other words, rsync is used for transferring files and directories, creating backups, mirroring files, and transferring large files between two locations. rsync identifies the differences between the source and destination files and directories using its… Read More »
There are a lot of technical terms and specifications around wifi technology that affect the performance of your wifi device. You would encounter these commonly on the specs of a wifi router, laptop wifi specs, and smartphone wifi specs. Most of the time people only look at the broad branding terms like Wifi4 or Wifi5… Read More »
Curl (acronym for “Client for url”) is a powerful command line tool and library for transferring files between two hosts. It supports a variety of protocols, including HTTP, SMTP, FTP, and POP3. A few things we can do with the curl command include: download files upload files testing services and APIs setting up custom headers… Read More »