How to setup DayZ Standalone Server on Windows Server 2019
It has been almost 11 months since this post about installing and setting up a Dayz server was made. Here is a fresh guide to setting up your DayZ Standalone…
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FFmpeg x264 encoding; More cores or faster cores?
Something different this time, testing with a faster CPU that has less cores. Is having more cores or faster cores an obvious difference for FFmpeg video encoding? Last time the…
Get time taken to execute task in Ubuntu
To check and get a detailed response on how long a task took on your Ubuntu server you can use the time utility. Note that this is not the inbuilt…
How to do a ping test on Ubuntu
Thankfully pinging from an Ubuntu server is very similar to how its done on Windows systems. To ping a website or ip address 4 times use ping -c 4 hostname…
The basics of GNU Wget
GNU Wget is an open source software for downloading files with compatibility with the many popular internet protocols through command line use. Wget is a popular tool and highly versatile,…
Linux is more popular than Windows on Azure
Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure has more Linux instances running on it than Windows, showing the decline in Windows Server (GUI based) is happening even on Microsoft’s own platform. This…
Basic Linux commands Part 2: Storage and disk information
Part 2 in the Basic Linux commands; How to view storage space details and information such as free space on Linux, Part 1 was Navigation, folders and files. Viewing disk…
Basic Linux commands Part 1: Navigation, folders and files
No GUI just text, Starting out with terminal can be confusing and daunting. Looking past the black console commands are actually fairly simple. Here are the basics in navigation and…
More downtime for Google services
It wasn’t even 3 months ago when i made this post on Googles downtime. I explained that whilst it is a huge bummer, Google still isn’t immune to downtime and…
Zip and Unzip files in Ubuntu
Zipping is the act of compressing a folder or files into one file (.zip) which can then be unpacked to return to the many files again. This is done for…