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...
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. I use Ubuntu on my laptop daily and occasionally log into Windows when I need to use Adobe Photoshop orĀ Acrobat. However, I have been using Windows...
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 any other similar failures can block normal data copy/transfer operations and render some of your files inaccessible. Fortunately, there are advanced...
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 automated bash script based on my earlier script. This script automatically pulls the latest version of FileZilla tarball from Filezilla project website...
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 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...
How to install TP-Link Archer T2U mini wireless adapter on Ubuntu 20.04
I haven’t hadĀ 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...
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 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...
Ubuntu installation stuck on ‘Preparing to install Ubuntu’ screen
Almost two weeks ago I bought a new laptop. I bought anĀ ASUS VivoBook Pro N580VD-E4556T,Ā a decent laptop with great specs. Display:Ā 15,6 inch (1920 x 1080) Processor:Ā Intel Core i7-7700HQ Memory:Ā 16 GB Storage:Ā 256 GB SDD + 1 TB HDD Graphic card:Ā NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 It came with a Windows 10...
How to enable HTTP2 on Ubuntu 16.04 server with Apache 2.4.27
Two days ago I wanted to enable HTTP2 my website because it’s faster, simpler, and more robust than HTTP1.Ā Check this linkĀ to read more about it. I have searched online how to enable it and I have followed almost every tutorial to enable it, but I couldn’t get it working. Everything...
How to use awk to get the amount of days of a specific month
I was busy with writing a shell script on my Linux machine to generate screenshots for liveuamap.com. I needed a way to get the amount of days in a specific month for a specific date. After long search I found ways to do it, one way was to useĀ cal (cal 5 2015 | awk 'NF {DAYS = (cal 5 2015 | awk 'NF...