If you are familiar with the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, you will probably know that it offers three type of account – subscription, preferred, and free-to-play – with different benefits (you have to login to swtor.com to see the page) for each kind of account; but what you probably don’t know is that you can unlock extra account benefits in Star Wars: The Old Republic than those indicated in the previous link. To qualify for the following benefits you need to either be a new player (brand new account) or a former subscriber (that haven’t been so for at least 90 days).
Format an USB pen drive on Linux
Do you want to format an USB pen drive on Linux, but you do not know how to do it? GParted is the solution.
Format an USB pen drive on Linux is highly recommended because it offers several benefits:
- it will erase all previous data – important if you stored sensitive data (that you don’t longer need);
- it allow you to choose a file system that better suit your need;
- it can reduce the file fragmentation on the disk and therefore improve the performances of the pen drive (this requires to copy the files elsewhere first and copy them back after the format).
Enable Google Chrome hardware acceleration
We have seen how to enable Mozilla Firefox hardware acceleration on Linux and this time we will see how to enable Google Chrome hardware acceleration; this guide will work on any major Operative System since the steps indicated are fully contained within Google Chrome’s settings.
Hardware acceleration is the use of specific computer hardware, like the graphic card for graphic related tasks, to perform some functions faster than is possible in “software-mode” running on the more general-purpose CPU. In order to benefit from hardware acceleration, the application must be programmed to support it and such support must be enabled at runtime (when the application is run by the user); the major browsers, like Mozilla Firefox and in this case Google Chrome, are programmed to support hardware acceleration, but not always they are enabled to use it.