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Windows

Sytem language

Windows

  • Open a console, with elevated privileges
  • Enter this following command so as to have a window with a choice of languages to install remove

Lpksetup /u

Well as you can see another issue arises, the default language is French, i will have to remove that.

  • Open Settings.
  • Click on Accounts.
  • Click on Sync your settings.
  • Under the “Individual sync settings” section, turn off the “Language preferences” toggle switch.

This will allow you to change the system language

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Guitar Soft

Captor X

Captor X

 

The latest captor has got bells and whistles to play and record a tube amp silently …

Captor X

Power or no power

Without power, the captor only works as an attenuator.
You have to plug the power outlet provided with the device otherwise no sound will come out from either the headphones or the XLR outs (have not tried phantom power yet).

Factory Sound

Factory speakers (IRs) that come with unit have a lot of reverb.
The space knob do not remove the reverb.
Since I use a combo, I can very easily compare the sound of my speaker with the sound of the IRs. Factory sound has a lot of sag
that becomes annoying and unbearable. I downloaded the Two Notes app to solve those issues.

App

The Torpedo Wireless App is available on the PlayStore .I paired the device with my phone. I did not have to register, enter my email, etc.
Still, to succeed pairing, you have to enter three times zero, followed by the last three digits of the device ID available either on the box or on the back of the unit.

Once connected, the IR’s and cabinets loaded and were available for modification within the phone app.

The App is really useful to get the sound that you want. You can load your own IR, change cabinets, add a room effect, etc.

So what ?

I think the best way to get the sound that you want will always be to compare it to a real speaker attached to the amp. Miking a speaker is not my goal yet but it is nice to have that option available.

The modified IRs remain in the unit and are available without a phone on 6 physical presets as well as 122 more through midi if you have use controller.

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Soft Windows

Text to speech in Windows

In Microsoft Word

To enable speech in Word so the computer read a document, do the following : 

  • In the menu bar, click on the customize quick access toolbar icon (4th icon in the toolbar on the upper left corner)
  • select more commands
  • in the new window, under choose commands from, select all commands
  • A list of commands will be displayed, you should locate and select Speak icon in this command
  • once selected, click on “Add”
  • conform on “OK”
  • The speak icon is now available in the word document interface  (instead of or after the redo icon)
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Soft Windows

SSD-Z

Information tool for SSD and other disk devices

 

You know CPU-Z right?

SSD-Z is an information tool for Solid State Drives and other disk devices.
Using a database, it will show information about your SSD, such as the controller, processing tech, NAND type etc.
Other useful information related to disk devices are also shown, such as S.M.A.R.T. status and partition layout.

Features

– Details of the controller and processing tech of NAND chips (for known devices). – Verify that TRIM is enabled for your system and SSDs. – S.M.A.R.T. status and full list of all the device’s available attributes. – List of all partitions. Including hidden, unmapped and boot partitions. – Benchmark IOPS, transfer speed and random access time (work in progress) – View the raw device identify data words.

Missing Features in Beta

– Some formatted SMART values may display incorrectly. Bytes written/read especially. – No individual details for each drive in a RAID array. – No SMART attributes for certain external USB drives. – Benchmark not fully implemented. – Support for NVMe devices is incomplete.

Contribute

Are the details for your SSD not being shown, or are they incorrect, then please help out. Within SSD-Z, make sure the SSD in question is selected, then go to the Submit tab. Now fill in any comments you may have, and add your email if you wish. Then submit the data to the online database.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: SSD-Z does not seem to know my SSD. A: Please use the submission feature for your SSD. Q: Certain SMART attributes does not show a formatted or raw value. A: This is because the raw value is zero. Zeros are not shown by design. Q: Why is the benchmark feature so bad? A: This area of SSD-Z is incomplete, and is still work in progress.

Device Color Coding

Green for SSD 

Orange for HDD and other devices

Purple for NVMe 

Pink for Removable 

Teal for Optical Drives

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Soft

Binni Shah

Linux Evangelist. Malwares. Kernel Dev. Security Enthusiast. Coffee, Jain, reformist & Philanthropist. binitamshah at protonmail dot com

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Soft

degoogle > a list of alternatives

I don’t have anything to hide, but I don’t have anything to show you either

Online services, including free of charge software that you use on a daily basis retain the rights to scan, analyze, and depict your profile for “research and performance improvement purposes”. At the end of the day, it will be transfered to the highest bidder.

 

github degoogle

 

Still,  there are alternatives to regain sovereignty over what  happens on your device once you’ re online. For instance, a project called “Cutting Google out of your life” provides a solid list of links including search engines, applications, and even OSes to keep that data yours if you want to. 

Below is an excerpt of what is proposed.

 

Browser extensions

These extensions can help prevent connections to Google domains and also improve your privacy/security online.

  • An expanded list from u/R0B0LUT10N:

Web browsers

    • DuckDuckGo – 5-eyes – One of the best privacy-focused search engines. Domain is hosted in USA which could potentially be problematic for some.
    • searx.me – Open-source (thanks for clarification u/Sheezdudeln) privacy search engine. Domain hosted in Germany.
    • MetaGer – 14-eyes – MetaGer is the search engine project from the registered nonprofit organization SUMA E.V. in Germany.
    • Qwant – 9-eyes – Major improvements since 2018’s guide. 
    • Swisscows – A Swiss search engine that offers a unique search experience for the web, images, videos, music, and more. They are currently funding a mail service. Read through their datacenter about page, it’s really interesting.
    • Mojeek – 5-eyes – Unlike other privacy search engines which act as a “middle man” between you and Google/Bing/Yahoo, Mojeek has their own crawler and index. The results aren’t as complete as some of the others, but it is still impressive and they are actively building their index to include more results with better accuracy.
    • Ekoru – Privacy focused search engine that also aims to clean up the oceans. 
    • Cyberd – Decentralized Google. A web 3 alternative for the Google search engine. In Beta testing mode. Uses IPFS and Tendermint consensus for security and economic incentives. Please see their ELI-5 FAQ for more info.
    • Toki – Decentralized search engine. It is “designed to be anonymous, private and censorship-resistant.” (Parent company is Swiss, which is outside of 5/9/14 Eyes, however in testing I connected to a few USA and Canadian servers).  
  • YouTube
    • PeerTube – Decentralized video hosting network. Still quite small, but is growing and has a dedicated community.
    • BitChute – Also P2P, but not decentralized. Due to it being proprietary, if BitChute goes down then the whole thing goes down (unlike PeerTube). 
    • DTube – Looks very similar to YouTube. Advertised as “first crypt-decentralized video-platform”. Built on Steemit and IPFS.
    • Bit.tube – Appears to be a crypto-powered decentralized video sharing service.
    • Invidious – An open-source front-end alternative to YouTube. Seems to work pretty well from my experience so far, and it hasn’t triggered anything on my adblocker/privacy extensions. Also offers downloads in many formats for videos (including .vtt subtitles).
    • Hooktube – A slightly better way to use actual YouTube. 
    • LBRY – A decentralized platform for distributing and supporting creators’s work. 
    • US.TV – PeerTube instance hosted by Epik.com.
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Soft

could-not-open-dev-vmmon-no-such-file-or-directory

could not open /dev/vmmon : no such file or directory.

Following a migration or an update, you might end up with this message when you try to launch a machine in VMWare.

To fix this :

  • Shut down the VM, quit VMware
  • Go to Sytem Preferences / Security and Privacy
  • Allow the app 
  • Relaunch VMware and the machine will now be ready for use

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Soft

Installing a third-party software in Manjaro

Under Manjaro, Pamac (package manager) may not provide that specific application you need, even under the command line.

You could find a .deb package on the editor’s website but it won’t help either as it is not ok on Arch-based systems.

Arch User Repository

Head to the the AUR website in the packages section

  • in the search bar, enter the desired software, hit enter
  • click on the wanted package
  • a new page will open. In the right top area, under “package actions”
  • click on “Download snapshot” in the right area of the page names Packages Actions area
  • extract the snapshot (double click on it and select the destination folder for extraction)
  • open a terminal and cd into the extracted folder :
  • enter ” makepkg -sci “. That should to the trick and install the app.

Once installed, the package manager will be able to remove it though.

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Soft

Safe surf

UK based Netcraft blocks credit card skimmers, non-consensual cryptocurrency miners, malicious and deceptive websites in your browser and sms phishing in your smartphone.
It is available for free on computers as a browser extension ((Windows, Mac OS) or an app on mobile devices (Android, iOS).

How ?
A rainbow logo will appear on the upper right corner of your browser and you will have to click on it to check the validity of the website ou are visiting.


Where ?
Here are the links for Brave (or chrome), Edge , and Opera.

What else ?
Netcraft also provides a Mail Reporter that integrates with some mail providers through a simple add-on in Gmail (web-based Gmail) and Android app, as well as Outlook client on all platforms.

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Soft

Synology : retrieve data from Hyperbackup


Under DSM5, the previous version of Synology’s operating system , a software called “Backup and Replication” allowed backups to an external volume in the file format of your choice (NTFS, HFS+, ext4, etc.). You could navigate within that volume’s tree and browse within folders to extract whatever file you needed.

Since DSM6, backups are managed by HyperBackup to save one
NAS to another one, encrypt a backup instead of a whole hard drive to protect the files, time stamp versions of the backup, etc. It creates a container file (.hbk), fragments files in a specific format (.bkpi) that remain unreadable unless you install Hyperbackup Explorer.

Hyperbackup Explorer is the desktop tool for browsing, decrypting, and extracting different versions of backup data in Hyper Backup repositories .It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Installation

Upon download, the package must be extracted.

Windows : following extraction,drop the whole folder containing the application in your programs folder and create a shortcut to launch launch it, locate the backup folder and select it for file extraction.

Mac : drag the downloaded application and drop it in the applications folder and launch it, locate the backup folder and select it for file extraction

Linux : following installation, navigate to /media/username/disk number/SynologyHyperBackup.bkpi in order to access the folder containing the backup.