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| | til.andrew-quinn.me
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| | Shell Bling Ubuntu and finstem now have what I'm calling "speed paints" of how someone, starting from scratch on a standard Ubuntu VM, might install the programs. This came out of me realizing ffmpeg makes speeding up a video recording of a VirtualBox session a one-line operation: 1 ffmpeg -i output.webm -filter:v "setpts=0.1*PTS" -an output-fast.webm When I watched them back, I realized it gave me a really good sense of what the installation should feel and look like, even if I hadn't actually tried it yet. That in turn made me think "Oh, installing this thing really isn't that bad after all." So I decided it was worth including.
| | blog.m5e.de
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| | After installing FreeBSD to my workstation, I wanted a desktop environment. I've installed gnome3 after reading the official documentation https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x11-wm.html. But nothing has worked. So, I installed the nvidia-driver for my two GPUs. The first documentation I've found is from "7.3-RELEASE": https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/7.3-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/en/articles/compiz-fusion/nvidia-setup.html. (I use 11.1-RELEASE) Don't use that documentation to make your settings in /boot/loader.conf! There stands: nvidia_load="YES" And that's simply not right for the newest driver! You should enter the following line:
| | newcome.wordpress.com
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| | I wanted to spin up a Linux development environment to hack on some code that needed epoll. I could have run everything in a Docker container, but I kinda wanted to be in that environment for total hackage. I thought maybe I'd just do it in a Virtualbox instance. Then I didn't want to install...
| | nelsonslog.wordpress.com
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| I want to be able to remotely access my PC Linux box even if Linux is down. Ie: just like you'd do with a keyboard and monitor plugged in locally, but via the Internet. There's a zillion ways to do this but they are all fiddly and the simplest ways are expensive or unobtanium. This...