When watching a good movie late at night, I use headphones to avoid disturbing other people sleeping in the house. But at night sometimes you put on the headphones the wrong way around – left speaker goes over the right ear and vice versa. Even though most of the headphones have L and R printed Read More …
Lately I have been seeing so many open wireless networks in the neighborhood that I became scared what if I accidentally click on them to connect. Open wireless networks are unprotected WiFi networks that anyone can connect to without having to supply any password. These open networks could be WiFi networks started by devices such Read More …
Font smoothing is a feature found in all the modern operating systems. In Windows 10, it is called ClearType and you can search for it in the Windows 10 settings (hotkey is Win+I). It was introduced after the invent of the LCD or LED monitors. Before LED computer screens became popular, everyone used the big Read More …
Earlier this week, my Windows 10 computer started to show an error “Microsoft Windows is not responding” with two options – “End Process” and “Cancel”. Both of these options lead to system hanging in the middle without any working desktop and all the Windows shortcut keys not working. After some examination, I found out it Read More …
Microsoft has released a new font named Cascadia Code. It is a mono-spaced font just like “Courier New” or “Dejavu Sans Mono” etc. This new font is designed especially for the programmers who have to work with integrated development environments (IDE) like Microsoft Visual Studio. It is a true type font (TTF) and can be Read More …
One of the most interesting features of Windows 10 is WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) which allows the native Linux kernel to run on top of Windows kernel eliminating any need of using virtualization software for running Linux in Windows. Linux shell run this way is much faster and has little memory overhead compared to Read More …
The new version (May 2019 update) of Windows 10 contains a new updated feature called Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) using which you can run Linux applications natively in Windows. It provides a native Linux kernel to be run directly inside Windows. You can also install different Linux distros such as Ubuntu, Kali, Alpine, Debian, Read More …
Having discovered a new feature called Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10 through which you can install Linux bash shell in Windows 10, I went crazy and ended up installing multiple Linux distros through WSL. After installing Kali Linux and Alpine Linux, when I tried to launch bash shell, Windows showed an error Read More …
Microsoft Windows 10 version 1803 and above allows you to install Linux bash shell inside Windows itself. Once installed, you can run bash shell and all the usual bash supported Linux command line tools in Windows. This is much better than running Linux using Virtual Box inside Windows because in this method, there is no Read More …
Microsoft PowerToys are free tools for Windows released mainly for power users. These tools are supposed to enhance the system performance, add the productivity and add new features to the system. Microsoft first released these toys for Windows 95/98, then for Windows XP and a few toys for Windows 7. And now Microsoft has made Read More …