Category Archives: Linux Tips

Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 (20KH) 6th Gen Linux

Posted on June 23, 2019 by phil

I have received a new Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 (6th generation, mine is the 20KH model with NFC and the higher res screen) which I have been trying to get Kubuntu 18:04 LTS Linux running on. This has been largely … Continue reading →

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Akroma Mining with Tesla K40

Posted on July 4, 2018 by phil

Following on from my post about mining ZCash I decided to mine some Akroma coin, I like the look of the project as it has some nice features and who knows. Maybe it will take off! I don’t have a lot … Continue reading →

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ZCash Mining With Nvidia Telsa

Posted on August 18, 2017 by phil

I have two Nvidia Telsa cards that I use for work, they are good for certain tasks around data mining and machine learning, and I have been interested in trying to use them for Zcash mining. I have a Antminer … Continue reading →

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Kubuntu 16.04 LTS

Posted on August 15, 2017 by phil

One of my Opensuse workstations fell over. Weird problem with the login, the sddm-greeter was crashing on start. I reinstalled a bunch of things but it would not come back to life. I decided that the system could do with … Continue reading →

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Syncthing

Posted on July 13, 2017 by phil

I seem to be constantly trying out different ways of syncing data. I have had no end of problems with unison. Apart from being slow getting build versions to match is a constant source of frustration. However,  I have found … Continue reading →

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Lightworks, PortAudio, and Opensuse Leap 42.2

Posted on June 7, 2017 by phil

I had some more messing about with PortAudio and Lightworks. This time I decided to build my own PortAudio as using a random build it silly. Its easy after all: Download from: portaudio.com/download.html Then if you build with: ./configure –enable-cxx=yes … Continue reading →

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Lightworks 12.6 and PortAudio – Opensuse 42.2

Posted on June 3, 2017 by phil

I had a lot of problems with Opensuse Leap 42.2 and Lightworks. This time it was portaudio that was causing all the problems. It would either hang Lightworks when loading at the point portaudio tried to detected the audio interfaces. Or … Continue reading →

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OwnCloud – its awesome!

Posted on April 21, 2017 by phil

I gave up on SpiderOak in the end, it was too resource heavy for my laptops, their batteries were really struggling. The constant encrypting and decrypting was too much. Its a shame because as a backup system for large amounts … Continue reading →

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A Beast

Posted on February 16, 2017 by phil

I have been cleaning up and resurrecting a beast of a computer. Its a dual Xeon 3.16GHz, with 8GB of RAM. Its not that high spec compared with today’s hardware. Has a fairly average GPU and a RAID card with … Continue reading →

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Poor KDE Performance – Balooctl Disable!

Posted on January 1, 2017 by phil

Two of my Opensuse boxes where performing really badly, but only some of the time. I tracked this down to the Baloo file indexing program. This is the tool that indexes your files for search, which is useful but only … Continue reading →

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