Saturday, March 2, 2024

Use PowerShell to check for memory upgrades

Use the following PowerShell command to check for the maximum memory supported by the motherboard 

Get-CimInstance Win32_PhysicalMemoryArray




The command below will display information on the current memory being used such as the speed.

Get-CimInstance CIM_PhysicalMemory



https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-check-if-you-can-upgrade-your-ram-on-windows/

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Proxmox

Proxmox Virtual Environment is a hyper-converged infrastructure open-source software. It is a hosted hypervisor that can run operating systems including Linux and Windows on x64 hardware.

https://www.proxmox.com/en/

GrapheneOS

GrapheneOS is an open-source project that offers a mobile operating system with Android app compatibility.

https://grapheneos.org

https://www.androidpolice.com/grapheneos-guide/

https://9to5google.com/2024/04/16/grapheneos-review-de-googled-goodness-video/

https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250331


XCP-ng

XCP-ng is a Linux distribution of the Xen Project, with pre-configured Xen Hypervisor and the Xen API project working out-of-the-box.

https://xcp-ng.org

https://www.vladan.fr/xcp-ng-virtualization-platform-with-management-by-xen-orchestra/


FalconHound

FalconHound is an utility that allows you to utilize and enhance the power of BloodHound in a more automated fashion. It is designed to be used in conjunction with a SIEM or other log aggregation tool.

https://github.com/FalconForceTeam/FalconHound

https://www.kitploit.com/2024/01/falconhound-blue-team-multi-tool-it.html

Betterfox

Betterfox is a preference list for Firefox.

https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox

strongSwan

The strongSwan project is an open-source VPN solution.  It has been ported to several platforms and an Android app is available.

https://www.strongswan.org

Safety check within Google Chrome

Google Chrome offers a safety check feature under settings or via chrome://settings/privacy.  This checks for updates as well as malicious extensions.



Monday, January 1, 2024

WingetUI

WingetUI is a GUI front-end to WinGet and other package managers for Windows.

https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI

https://www.howtogeek.com/this-open-source-project-brings-the-best-part-of-linux-to-windows/

https://www.howtogeek.com/winget-is-windows-best-kept-secret-heres-what-it-can-do-for-you/

Public domain music websites

Below are some web sites that have public domain music available.

https://freepd.com/

https://freemusicarchive.org/

https://musopen.org/

http://www.openmusicarchive.org/

https://mobygratis.com/

https://imslp.org/

https://freesound.org/