Unlocking the Power of ChatGPT: Benefits and Fascinating Possibilities

Introduction In recent years, artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress in language generation, leading to the development of advanced language models like ChatGPT. Powered by OpenAI’s groundbreaking GPT-3.5 architecture, ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art chatbot that has the ability to engage in dynamic conversations, answer questions, and provide assistance on a wide range of topics. However, … Read more

Deploying Stable Diffusion locally

Stable Diffusion is a powerful text-to-image model that can generate realistic and detailed images based on natural language descriptions. It was developed by Stability AI in collaboration with academic researchers and non-profit organizations. Stable Diffusion is based on a latent diffusion model, a kind of deep generative neural network that iteratively denoises random noise until … Read more

Ubuntu Linux distro news

If you are a fan of Ubuntu Linux, you might be interested in some of the latest news about this popular distro. In this blog post, I will share with you some of the highlights from the Ubuntu world in the past few months. First of all, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) was released in … Read more

How to display Linux version information

Here are some different commands to show the OS version and distribution information lsb_release command The lsb_release utility displays LSB (Linux Standard Base) information about the Linux distribution. This command should work on all Linux distributions that have the lsb-release package installed: lsb_release -a ~/scripts$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Release: … Read more

The minimal hosting model in ASP.NET Core 6

ASP.NET Core 6 has introduced a new hosting model that is much more simplified and streamlined, reducing the amount of boilerplate code you need to write to get your ASP.NET Core application up and running. This article introduces this new hosting model with relevant code examples wherever appropriate. To work with the code examples provided … Read more

Windows Forms

Persist and Restore Forms for larger application with A lot of different forms and all either factory created or dependency injection loaded FormStateModel FormStateDataModel FormStateManager Implementation More Data Models Used since the System.Dawing Models cant be serialized Misc – Data Mapping

C# .Net 6 Samples

Some example of simple .Net 6 but common coding scenarios (CS# lang v10) Could also be converted to a JSON Serializer or XML reader Parse each line from an auto genereted web hosted text file containing version info in order to perform self update. Async File Download using HttpClient { string url = Properties.Settings.Default.UpdateHistoryUrl; List<;ApplicationVersion>; … Read more

TPL and Traditional .NET Framework Asynchronous Programming

Some exciting ideas and demonstrations on how to efficiently do parallel work without the pitfalls. The .NET Framework provides the following two standard patterns for performing I/O-bound and compute-bound asynchronous operations: Asynchronous Programming Model (APM), in which asynchronous operations are represented by a pair of Begin/End methods such as FileStream.BeginRead and Stream.EndRead. Event-based asynchronous pattern (EAP), in which … Read more

Powershell basics

Batch operations for file objects. Rename multiple files: Get-ChildItem *.txt | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name -replace ‘.txt’,’.log’ } The Get-ChildItem cmdlet gets all the files in the current folder that have a .txt file extension then pipes them to Rename-Item. The value of NewName is a script block that runs before the value is submitted to the NewName parameter. In the script block, the $_ automatic … Read more

Matroska and thumbnails

Why is the editor disabled the instance I move my mouse? A bit more to it than you might think even when having the latest software of Matroska Cover Art Guidelines Submitted by robUx4 on Sun, 2010-09-19, 16:16 With the rise of Media Centers and even programs to manage large amounts of audio files, it’s becoming necessary to … Read more

Speed optimized

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