Showing a pop-up notification from the system tray is very easy with Powershell on Windows 11. To begin, run this command as Administrator to install the BurntToast module. Install-Module -Name BurntToastInstall-Module -Name BurntToast Then you are ready to use this script to show a sample notification. Import-Module BurntToast New-BurntToastNotification -Text "Windows 11 Update", "You are … Read more
Finding out when your Linux machine actually booted up can be tricky. This is how to do it though. The date command can be used with other commands to easily give this information. 4.4 Fri Mar 27 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ date -d @`grep btime /proc/stat | awk ‘{ print $2 }’` Fri 27 Mar 06:47:22 … Read more
My Ubuntu 18.04 system was taking a long time to boot, but I have analyzed the problem with Systemd and now it should boot faster. Run this command to see which service takes the longest at boot time. 4.4 Thu Oct 17 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ systemd-analyze blame | head -n 10 2min 10.235s apt-daily.service 55.956s … Read more
The console font in Ubuntu 15.04 can be quite garbled when a console application is loaded that requires ncurses characters to draw an interface. There as easy fix for this. Run this command in a virtual terminal or a terminal emulator window. sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setupsudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup Now choose UTF-8 from this list. On this … Read more