A very nice Wireless USB dongle to allow easy roaming when using Ubuntu or Mint on a laptop.
A very nice and useful USB wireless adapter to use with Kali Linux and Ubuntu.
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Linux sound issues are so annoying in 2024.
Getting a USB microphone working on Linux can be quite a challenge. But why?
Read MoreHow to format a USB drive easily in Linux and have it be visible in Windows.
How to properly format a USB drive to make it visible in Windows easily.
Read MoreSamsung Dex in Windows 11 is awesome. Control a Samsung Phone from your Windows PC.
The new Samsung Dex application in Windows 11 allows controlling a Samsung Galaxy `phone from Windows 11. This is very nice. You can see a desktop interface rather like Gnome Shell and then access all `phone apps from your PC. This is an outstanding app. All I had to do…
Read MoreGet information about your peripherals with Linux easily.
Linux offers many ways to get information about your current hardware. Such as mouse and keyboard model and type. Here is an example, getting information about the keyboard layout installed on my system. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ setxkbmap -query | awk ‘/layout/ && a ~ /model/ {print a"\n"$0} {a =…
Read MoreUbuntu not always writing data to USB hard drives when I copy files to them.
Sometimes I copy files from my Linux installation to my NTFS external hard drive, and the files are not always fully transferred. This must be due to the fact it is always connected and therefore I am not removing it. But if I run the sync command in a terminal,…
Read MoreVery useful Linux tips for a desktop Ubuntu user.
Write an ISO to a thumb drive easily with the etcher utility https://etcher.io/. Download this utility from the Github site. Then unpack the zip file to a empty folder, or to your desktop. Then make it executable. jason@Yog-Sothoth » Desktop » $ chmod +x etcher-electron-1.4.4-x86_64.AppImage Then run the AppImage to…
Read MoreGet Prolific USB-serial adapter working with Windows 8.
Getting the Prolific USB serial adapter working with Windows 8 can be difficult. Especially if you are studying for CCNA and you need to access a 2960G switch on Windows with Putty. As strange as it may look, you need an outdated driver to make it work. The only working…
Read MoreHow to use the mkfs command on Linux to format a USB drive to NTFS.
The mkfs command for Linux may be used to create new file-systems on a USB drive. I have used this to format a USB drive that had errors on it. Instead of using Windows 8.1 to format it, I have chosen to use the mkfs command as that is the…
Read MoreHow I got my Realtek RTL2832 DVB-T USB adapter working on Debian 7.1.
I recently bought a TVstick branded USB TV tuner that had the Realtek Rtl2832UDVB chipset inside. Following the instructions on this site: http://jms.id.au/wiki/EzcapDvbAdapter. I was able to get this device working with the 3.2 kernel on Debian Linux 7.1. Firstly; retrieve the source code for the drivers. git clone –depth=1…
Read MoreA look at the objdump command. A very useful Linux utility indeed. As well as some other useful commands.
The best thing that is happening with the Linux kernel and the associated software that builds a distribution is that the software is getting easier to use than ever. But the Linux command-line is still the best and easiest way to get some things done. For example; getting information about…
Read MoreSandisk USB 3.0 64 Gigabyte flash drive. A huge capacity for a reasonable price indeed.
The Sandisk USB 3.0 flash disk offers a massive capacity for a reasonable price. With a transfer rate of 190 Megabytes per second, this drive will be able to copy large files to and fro with a minimum of waiting time. On Amazon, this drive retails for US$79.88, this is…
Read More256 Gigabyte USB drive available on Amazon.com. Is this a good deal or what?
This is a 256 Gigabyte USB flash drive. This shows how far we have come since the early days of portable storage of personal files. This will cost you US$545.67 on Amazon.com and would be able to store a huge movie collection and/or a good supply of music in MP3 or…
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