Kubuntu 15.10
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Upgrading from 14.04.3 to 15.10 and plasma 5, I have to say, I like it, it’s very polished, looks great, and usability is still there from earlier revisions. I’m looking forward to further customizing this system.
Category Archives: General Knowledge
Infiniband Tips and Tricks
Below are some commands I’ve found useful when dealing with infiniband and related issues. Determine port state on all ports available within the fabric The command ibnetdiscover command will show you the state of each port in the the fabric. … Continue reading
Firefox mobile search assistant
So annoyingly I learned tonight that Firefox Mobile’s, search assistant tool (long press on home) tends to default to the wrong search engine. To fix this, open up firefox mobile, go to Settings -> Customize -> Search, then select a … Continue reading
DVD ripping in Linux
So there are multiple methods to pull this off, however after doing it by hand, using DVD::rip, using Handbrake, etc. I finally settled on VLC. Yes, good old VLC has DVD ripping support. http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-rip-DVDs-for-free-with-VLC outlines how this is done, and … Continue reading
Windows 7 dropping connections to SMB services regularly
One thing that’s been constantly bugging me, as well as my wife is the fact that in general, Samba (SMB) connectivity from our Windows 7 machines is spotty at best. In general we can connect, and transfer data to and … Continue reading
Juniper NCSVC and Linux 4.0 RC6
As an update to my earlier post Juniper NCSVC and Linux 3.19 I can confirm that the 4.0 RC6 kernel resolves the connectivity issues I was experiencing earlier. Likely earlier kernels in the 4.0 line have fixed this issue as … Continue reading
Getting the Nvidia distribution drivers installed with Ubuntu 14.10 and possibly later
So do to the fact that my HTPC died, and I didn’t want to restore the OS from a backup, I opted instead to install a fresh (and reasonably modern) version of Kubuntu. Once installed I quickly ran into problems … Continue reading
My HTPC finally died…
So over the last few years I’ve been a very simple HTPC setup. It consisted of an Intel E4500, 4GB ram system with a GTX 780 Nvidia card running Kubuntu Linux 12.04. For storage I booted off a simple USB … Continue reading
Juniper NCSVC and Linux 3.19
So interestingly I noticed that as soon as I upgraded to the 3.19 kernel (RC5 in my case) I was no longer able to connect to any internal machines on my corporate VPN. Interestingly my private OpenVPN services still all … Continue reading
Mounting a DVD or CD image virtually in Linux
Mounting a DVD or CD image (ISO file) virtually is trivial in linux. To do this you’ll need to have superuser permissions, in the example below I’m using the sudo command: cfaber@sputnik:/dump$ mkdir ISO cfaber@sputnik:/dump$ sudo mount -o loop DVD-IMAGE.ISO … Continue reading