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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 13, 2023

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A Complete Guide to Viewing and Monitoring Error Logs in Ubuntu

=> ↺ A Complete Guide to Viewing and Monitoring Error Logs in Ubuntu

It’s extremely frustrating when your computer isn’t working properly and you don’t know why. While there aren’t easy resolutions to every issue you might encounter in Ubuntu, you can use resources like the Ubuntu error logs to troubleshoot and diagnose your PC woes.

How to Free Up Memory and Improve RAM Performance on Linux

=> ↺ How to Free Up Memory and Improve RAM Performance on Linux

Is your Linux PC struggling to handle certain resource-intensive programs? Or maybe you frequently find yourself staring at a loading icon for several minutes before your computer does something. Whatever the case, we all want our PCs to perform at their level best.
Random Access Memory, or simply RAM, is crucial to having a performant PC, especially when running multiple programs or resource-intensive applications. Here are some ways to improve RAM performance on Linux.

Modern CSS in Real Life

=> ↺ Modern CSS in Real Life

By any measure, CSS has gotten a lot better in recent years. It’s gotten more useful features, better interoperability between browsers, and become easier to learn thanks to a concerted push toward making CSS a cohesive system free of quirks and hacks.
What matters though is the real world. Real websites. Real impact on the things we make and the people who use them.
It’s working.

radio on the tv

=> ↺ radio on the tv

Like many people in my generation, my memories of youth are heavily defined by cable television. I was fortunate enough to have a premium cable package in my childhood home, Comcast's early digital service based on Motorola equipment. It included a perk that fascinated me but never made that much sense: Music Choice. Music Choice was around 20 channels, somewhere in the high numbers, of still images with music. It was really ad-free, premium radio, but in the era before widespread adoption of SiriusXM that wasn't an easy product to explain. And SiriusXM, of course, has found its success selling services to moving customers. Music Choice was stuck in your home. The vast majority of Music Choice customers must have had it only as part of a cable package, and part of it that they probably barely even noticed.

Minute Rice, Minute Text, Minute Websites

=> ↺ Minute Rice, Minute Text, Minute Websites

There’s an interesting parallel here, I think, to claims about how fast you can scaffold a website. X framework or Y host allows you to go from zero to a beautiful, functional (probably cloned from a template) website in “three easy steps”. The idea being, however implicit, that “in as little as three easy steps” you’re 90% of the way to something unique and special.

Get Array Length in Bash

=> ↺ Get Array Length in Bash

When you are dealing with arrays in bash, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to find the array length.

Download Debian 12 LTS "Bookworm" Full Editions with Mirrors, Torrents and Checksums [Ed: Where to get Debian]

=> ↺ Download Debian 12 LTS "Bookworm" Full Editions with Mirrors, Torrents and Checksums

How To Dual Boot Windows And Debian

=> ↺ How To Dual Boot Windows And Debian

This is a comprehensive guide explaining the step-by-step procedure to set up Dual Boot Windows and Debian 12. Our focus in this guide will be on the new Debian release version 12 code-named Bookworm. Dual-booting Debian 12 and Windows will give you the choice to switch between Windows and Debian Linux leveraging the power of both worlds.

How to Download Older Versions of Google Chrome

=> ↺ How to Download Older Versions of Google Chrome

The topic for this article might sound preposterous and make you recoil with concern. Just why would anyone want to downgrade an application that works just fine, much less a web browser?
As we know, the current tech space is swarming with a myriad of security threats that are constantly prowling for vulnerabilities and loopholes that are, in most cases, found in older software versions.

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