cisco ip phone 7942

checkout: https://usecallmanager.nz/ lots of funky configs out there… If the phone is able to get its IP address over dhcp, its config via tftp, and you have a valid ntp IP address in your config file and you have connectivity Read more

usb audio fun

so I tried to reset my bios defaults earlier today to try to fix another problem that popped up and I accidentally enabled by builtin sound card… rather than rebooting to take advantage of my new /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist of snd_hda_intel, and Read more

disable username selection lightdm

add these two lines under [SeatDefaults] in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/90.nvidia.confgreeter-hide-users=truegreeter-show-manual-login=true new way: create /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/10-ubuntu.conf with: [Seat:*]user-session=ubuntugreeter-show-manual-login=truegreeter-hide-users=trueallow-guest=false

Random Chrome Crashing

Chrome kept crashing today – not the whole thing – but certain tabs when they loaded a lot of content. I updated chrome and everything else that needed updates, restarted chrome, turned off all the extensions. still crashing… Then I Read more