To build and use Java applications in Windows 11, you’ll need to install Java JDK. The JDK includes tools for developing and testing programs written in the Java programming language and running on the Java platform. Below are steps that one can take to download, install and add Java executables to Windows PATH environment variables. How to download and install Java JDK in Windows 11 As mentioned above, to build a develop Java programs in Windows, you’ll need Java JDK installed....

MySQL and MariaDB are the most popular open-source database servers in use today and run on the majority of websites online. This is the sixth post in this series which can be used as a beginner’s guide to learn how to create a website domain, set up a Google Cloud server with Ubuntu Linux, and install software and packages to build and run a website online. In this series:...

This is the fifth post in this series which can be used as a beginner’s guide to learn how to create a website domain, set up a Google Cloud server with Ubuntu Linux, and install software and packages to build and run a website online. In this series: How to create a website domain How to set up a Google Cloud server with Ubuntu Linux How to install Apache on a Google Cloud server (alternative to Nginx) How to install Nginx on a Google Cloud server (alternative to Apache)...

Plex is a media server that allows you to create and organize all your video, music, and photo collections and stream them to your mobile devices, TV, and computer from anywhere. It has two main components: Plex Media Server and a client application that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux and almost all mobile devices. In most environments, a Plex server is installed on a computer that has a lot of storage space or has a NAS attached to it to store and access a large collection of a variety of media....

LAMP is an acronym for Linux (Ubuntu), Apache2 HTTP Server, MariaDB or MySQL Database Server, and PHP Scripting Language. It is a group of open-source software and building blocks of many of the web applications and the majority of the content management systems (CMS) in use today. Now that you can install Linux OS inside Windows via WSL, the steps below show you how to install the LAMP stack in Windows....

To do that on VMware Workstation Pro, continue with the steps below. If you own a Windows or Linux computer and would like to experience Ubuntu, then installing it on a VMware Workstation software as a guest machine is a fastest and most cost-effective way to go. When you’re ready to run the VMware Workstation guest machine with Ubuntu, the below steps should be a great place to start. This should also be a great way to test the upcoming Ubuntu 18....

If you need the latest version of Varnish, you’ll have to manually compile it yourself and install it. this post shows students and new users how to manually compile and install Varnish cache 6.0 which is the latest at the time of this post on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 LTS servers. For this post, we’ll install the Apache2 web server and configure it to listen on port 8080. then install Varnish and configure it to listen on port 80....

Windows has two command-line shells: the Command shell and PowerShell. Each command-line shell provides an entry point for typing commands in the Command Prompt or PowerShell console window. You can automate routine tasks, like user account management or nightly backups, with batch (.bat) files. In some cases, running the Command Prompt before logging into Windows is the best way to troubleshoot issues. If you cannot open a command prompt from within Windows 11, you can open a command prompt at boot to use instead....

It will suck when you select the wrong audio device to play a video that’s offensive to others or play embarrassing music to the wrong sound device. You can save yourself some embarrassment and rename your audio devices, so you know each device attached to your computer. Although Windows tries to display the name of the devices according to the manufacturer naming convention, sometimes it’s hard to tell which device is which based on its name....

Students who are thinking of using OpenOffice productivity on Ubuntu systems, this brief tutorial shows you how to do just that. As you all know, all Ubuntu desktops come with LibreOffice installed. This is the default productivity tool on most Linux systems including Ubuntu. But this wasn’t the case a few years back. LibreOffice only became the default productivity suite after OpenOffice’s parent company (Oracle) made some changes to its licensing terms that had folks angry and started the LibreOffice project....

It might also be the case where malware or viruses have set up firewall rules to give themselves unlimited access to your systems. Or Microsoft Defender firewall is not filtering access properly. In these situations, resetting or restoring the firewall to default settings might be something you might want to consider. When you reset the firewall settings, it will remove all additional Microsoft Defender firewall settings that have been added for all network locations since Windows was installed....

MenaPro is an open-source, advanced content management system (CMS) that gives you powerful sets of tools to build and manage a content website. This CMS is also a hundred times faster than most content management platforms available. With its intuitive and powerful backend, you’ll be able to put together a website with ease. You also get a powerful search tool, backend analytics, drag n drop media panel, and more. This CMS platform is designed for ease of use to allow webmasters to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with users across multiple devices, including mobile....

You can right-click the Skype app on the taskbar and close it. However, the next time you log back on, Skype will automatically start again. If you don’t want the Skype app to automatically start up every time, use the steps below to prevent Skype app from starting up every time you log on. Two types of Skype apps can be installed on Windows and multiple ways to disable it from starting up when you log on....

With advertising ID enabled, location-based apps will be able to track and access your location much the same way that websites do online with a unique identifier stored in a cookie. This unique identifier can then be used to provide more targeted ads and services to you, the user on that device. This might also be a privacy issue as advertising networks can associate personal data they collect and link it with your device advertising ID to track you and your activities....

For computers and devices that support it, Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling enables more efficient GPU scheduling between applications, thus improving performance. This feature is available in Windows 11, however, only for computers that have GPU that supports Hardware Accelerated Scheduling. When your device supports it, Windows 11 will offload most of the GPU scheduling to a dedicated GPU-based scheduling processor. This a feature that isn’t new to Windows 11. It was introduced in Windows 10....

A new feature added to Edge is its Efficiency mode, which is designed to help extend battery life by minimizing power usage and reducing resource usage (CPU usage) by modifying certain tab activity on tabs you’re not interacting with and putting inactive background tabs to sleep after 5 minutes or less. The sleeping tabs feature in Microsoft Edge makes background tabs sleep after two hours of inactivity to free up resources for active tabs, new tabs, and other applications on your device....

Fullscreen Exclusive (FSE) mode – games take ownership of the display and allocation of resources of your graphics card.Windowed mode – games are deployed in a bordered window which allows other applications and windows to continue running in the background.Borderless windowed mode – games will still be running in a window but has no border around it. These different types of display modes provide unique benefits for gamers. Fullscreen optimizations – a feature released with Windows 10 takes full screen exclusive games and runs them instead in a highly optimized borderless windowed format that takes up the entire screen....

You cannot upgrade Drupal from its portal. So, you’ll have to manually update or upgrade to the latest version either from the command line console or via some hosting platform. All previous versions of Drupal CMS are vulnerable. You can find out more about this vulnerability by going to this page To resolve this remote code security vulnerability, you can either apply a patch or upgrade to the latest version of Drupal....

The chattr command is used to change a file attribute in Ubuntu Linux. File attributes are meta-data properties that describe how a file behaves in Linux. It also describes if a file is compressed, deletable or if a file can be changed or modified. The chattr command is included in Ubuntu by default and available based on the file systems being used. One common use of the chattr command is to set the immutable flag on a file which prevents a file from being deleted or renamed....

Top 5 Best Content Delivery Network / CDN for WordPress: Why you need CDN? Content Delivery Network service is used to store Static contents: HTML, CSS, Javascript, and images , Data source e.g. JSON or XML and Rich media content: video on demand, flash and audio files etc. on Multiple webservers so that the users can access those files in blazing fast speed. We all know that HTTP can only perform limited number of request from a specific server....