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Category Archives: Linux Tips
ZCash Mining With Nvidia Telsa
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
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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Tagged crash, KDE, kubuntu, linux, setup, system install, ubunutu
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Syncthing
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
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
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!
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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Tagged cloud, linux, owncloud, security, storage
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A Beast
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!
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
Gigabyte X79-UP4 Linux Horror
So I am not much of a Windows user, I have one Windows machine that doesn’t get used all the much. I tend to use Linux and have done for about 15 years. One of my work machines has caused … Continue reading
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Tagged gigabyte, linux, opensuse, problems, USB
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Lightworks 12.6 working on Opensuse 13.2 & Leap 42.1
This might have been covered but I wasn’t able to find it easily so I thought I would post it up. I have been trying to get Lightworks 12.6 working on Opensuse 13.2 and ran into some problems. It would … Continue reading
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Tagged 13.2, hangs, leap 42.1, lightworks 12.6, lwks, not loading, opensuse
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