How many cores to assign to vmware virtual machines
TL:DR Even with Hyperthreading enabled, do not exceed the amount of PHYSICAL cores your machine has. The General rule for assigning CPU's is to keep your virtual cpu count at…
Best linux distro for daily use in 2017
A new year has begun. Time to format my disks. New windows install and more importantly, new Linux install. With windows, the choice is easy. Windows 10. With Linux, it’s a bit more complicated….
Here were the candidates
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Here’s a little history about my relationship with Ubuntu. Ubuntu was my first distro and all was right with the world, I would never have left… that is.. until the fire nation att… until unity. It was a bit of a messy breakup, something about it just didn’t resonate with my soul. A year or two ago I tried it again but I remember seeing amazon search results integrated by default and was instantly disgusted. But time has passed, seasons have changed and I believe people learn from their mistakes..so I wanted to give it another shot. so I did… (more…)
How to speedup (stop lag) in Fedora 25
With Fedora 25 (as you probably already know) X was replaced with Wayland as the default display server. Now while I applaud Fedora for taking that giant step forward. The fact…
How to disable Cortana and Web Search in windows 10 anniversary update (2016)
With the newest update, windows has hidden the option "search online and include web results" and therefore has made it difficult for users to disable Cortana and Web results completely.…
How to stop a Windows 10 update in progress
Open cmd as an administrator and net stop wuauserv net stop wuauserv net stop bits net stop dosvc net stop wuauserv is written twice as the first attempt tends to…
Windows 10 Ninja Cat wallpaper
To celebrate one year of the Windows 10 insider program, Microsoft sent out this email to its insiders with exclusive Ninja Cat Windows 10 wallpapers as well as a Ninja Cat GIF.
The wallpaper zip below contains multiple files in various sizes for both phones and PC’s alike.
You can download the official files using the links below:
- Insider-exclusive wallpaper package > Download it here
- Insider-exclusive Ninja Cat animated GIF > Download it here
How to fix ssh locale issues on Linux
So you ssh into your server and all over the place you see something like perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE =…
How to get open terminal in Fedora 24 (Gnome)
The usual package nautilus-open-terminal was replaced by gnome-terminal-nautilus so you can just sudo dnf install gnome-terminal-nautilus-3.20.2-2.fc24.x86_64
How to install intel drivers on Fedora 24
So Fedora 24 came out recently and just like me you ran and did yourself a fresh install. Now you want those video drivers and Intel Graphics installer tells you…
How to fix .local dns resolution on Fedora 23
Most likely in your nsswitch file you have a line like hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname mymachines The default settings instructs the pc to resolve all .local…