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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 11. Yesterday,14th August, I had to work on my Windows machine and before turning it off, I saw that there were updates available. And I think...
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. I use Ubuntu on my laptop daily and occasionally log into Windows when I need to use Adobe Photoshop or Acrobat. However, I have been using Windows...
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 any other similar failures can block normal data copy/transfer operations and render some of your files inaccessible. Fortunately, there are advanced...
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 project in the field of big data. We measured global internet speed and latency changes between 2019 and 2022 (Covid period). The dataset we used for...
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 automated bash script based on my earlier script. This script automatically pulls the latest version of FileZilla tarball from Filezilla project website...
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 couple of programs that are only available on Windows. When I boot up my computer, the following screen is being displayed on the monitor. As you can...
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 everywhere without almost no limitation except the battery life. Last week, I got a PC, and I have installed it in my workroom where I work, study and...
Dlib is a modern C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms and tools for creating complex software in C++ to solve real world problems. It is used in both industry and academia in a wide range of domains including robotics, embedded devices, mobile phones, and large high performance...
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 found. Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed, or enter new name Download the package from the website move the folder to ~/texmf/tex/latex/ or...
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 solution for children in the kindergarten. I had to build OpenCV 3.4.1 from source using CMake. To be honest, that was the first time in my life! I...
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