Category: #ExtremeTech

While CentOS is mostly used in servers, it can also be used on the desktop. This tutorial will show you how to install CentOS on…

While using a Mac, sometimes you need to dig deep into settings or perhaps pull off some developer-grade command-line tasks. For that, you’ll need the…

Fancy playing Android games on your desktop? We have shown you how to do so in Windows, but what about Linux? If you want to…

Each user’s browser makes use of a built-in cache to store downloaded objects, which can significantly speed up repeat visits to your website by loading…

React is often used to make dynamic web apps that respond to user input, but it’s also quite useful for static sites. React sites can…

Caching is the process of storing downloaded data for later use, where it can be read from disk rather than requesting it again. Making proper…

When you’re elbow-deep in drive configuration or troubleshooting, you often need to know what file system a certain drive on your Windows 10 PC uses….

Qualcomm’s Quick Charge platform has sort of become an industry-standard having been used on a wide range of phones, tablets, and more. But now for…

This is an amazing time to build a PC! Online tutorials are plentiful, and desktop components are so standardized, building a computer is almost foolproof….

Intel delivered bad news to its investors today, announcing that its plans for 7nm chips have slipped another six months, and yields are now running…

When connecting to a database, you must take extra precautions if it’s not running locally. Any connections made over a network should be secure, and…

AMD’s latest assault on Intel has been revealed, with the AMD Ryzen 4000G chips promising a taste of Zen 2 for your desktop. The new…

If you’re the only one using your Linux computer, why have it continuously nag you for your password? Let’s see how you can use sudo…

If you’re the only one using your Linux computer, why have it continuously nag you for your password? Let’s see how you can use sudo…

HTTP/3 is the next generation of the HTTP protocol. It’s powered by QUIC, which replaces TCP at the transport layer and cuts down on the…

DNS records are used to translate addresses humans can understand (like google.com) into IP addresses computers can understand (like 64.233.191.255). In order for your site…

Let’s admit it. When you boot up your Linux computer, the Grub menu looks ugly. Luckily, if you don’t like how your Grub boot menu…

Rebuilding your PS4 database is similar to defragging a hard drive in a PC. Rebuilding the database can increase performance and even help you recover…

NGINX is commonly used as a web server, but it also does a great job of acting as a reverse proxy and load balancer—a network…

Fraunhofer, the German company that helped develop the H.264, H.265 and MP3 encoding formats, has unveiled a new video encoding standard that could severely reduce…

Wireshark is a world-class packet analyzer available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Its filters are flexible and sophisticated, but sometimes, counterintuitive. We’ll explain the “gotchas”…