Author: Mark

Linux Install Detail Instructions

Linux is a Unix-like operating system. The kernal (the base of the OS) was created by Linus Torvalds, a student at the University of Helsinki in 1991. The kernal was adopted for the GNU operating system, so the real name of the OS should be the GNU / Linux Operating System. Since 1991 Linux has…

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Kali Linux and Pen Teasting

Kali Linux is an open-source, Debian-based Linux distribution geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering. It is used security analyst to find vulnerabilities in networks of computers. Because Kali is an free and opensource tool it is also available to anyone including hackers.

One Bootable To Rule Them All

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don’t multiple USB sticks, or UCB creation programs. You just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the Ventoy drive. Go here to download Ventoy. Select the Windows Zip File.

Must Have Bootable Media

As computer geeks we must all have a bunch of CDs/DVDs/USB media in our toolkit. Among these are Windows install media, Linux install media, and Windows utilities. Windows Windows 10 – To install to and repair Windows 10 PCs. To get a Windows 10 ISO you must download the Media Creation Tool. Click ‘Download tool…

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Windows 11 Released

Windows 11 was release to the public on October 5th, Microsoft however will not pushing people to upgrade. I think they learned a lesson from the sloppy Windows 10 rollout. I think at some point every PC will get a prompt that it is available for upgrade, or at least the ones with compatible hardware….

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What is an ISO file? How to use them.

An ISO image is a disk image of an optical disc (CD or DVD). In other words, it is an archive file that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, sector by sector, including the optical disc file system. The name ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization  is an international standard-setting body…

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What is UEFI?

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface or UEFI is a publicly available specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware. UEFI replaces the legacy Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware interface originally present in all IBM PC-compatible personal computers, with most UEFI firmware implementations providing support for legacy BIOS services. UEFI can support…

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How To Use Gimp

GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. GIMP is released under GPL-3.0-or-later license and is available for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. Similar to PhotoShop GIMP is a very powerful tool for editing images…

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