Background As a regular reader of this blog, you already know I use a dual-boot setup on my laptop where Ubuntu 22.04 is installed alongside Windows...
My dual-boot setup suddenly stopped working on my Dell XPS
I have been using Ubuntu (20 and then 22.0) and Windows 11 on my Dell XPS 15, 7590 for over three years without any major problems related to booting...
How to restore files from a disk storage with bad sectors using GNU ddrescue on Ubuntu Linux
Background Losing access to our precious data due to hardware failures is a nightmare for all of us. Bad sectors on a hard disk drive (HDD) or...
How to create your own reverse geocoding API using OpenStreetMap Docker, Osimium and Nominatim
During my master’s at the University of Twente and for the course Managing Big Data, I worked with three other students on a very interesting...
A fully automated Filezilla installer bash-script on Ubuntu Linux 20.04
Almost five years ago, I wrote this blog post Making an installer/updater for Filezilla on Ubuntu Linux Today in this blog post, I present a fully...
How to make Windows the default OS to boot into instead of Ubuntu Linux on a computer with dual-boot
Like many developers, I run Windows 10 alongside Ubuntu 20.04. I use both of them regularly, but I use Windows most of the time since I work with a...
How to install TP-Link Archer T2U mini wireless adapter on Ubuntu 20.04
I haven’t had a PC for the last 10 years. I’ve always used laptops because it’s much easier and they give you freedom to work...
How to build Dlib on Linux Ubuntu 18.04 using cmake with AVX support and install its Python API
Dlib is a modern C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms and tools for creating complex software in C++ to solve real world problems. It...
How to install LaTeX packages in Ubuntu 16.04
It’s quite frustrating when you want to work on a report using TexMaker on Ubuntu 16.04 and you get an error: LaTeX Error: file pgf-pie.sty not...
How to install CMake 3.11.0 on Ubuntu 16.04
Last week I got in touch with CMake because of my internship. I am doing now an internship in a company where I have to develop a Facial Recognition...