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installing canon printer drivers on ubuntu 20.04 without running their bash script
So I really like canon color laser multi function printers – for their full duplex color printing, their copying, for full duplex scanning to a pdf on a usb stick (scanning to sane didn’t work the last time I looked), but certainly not for installing packages via a bash script Read more
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ubuntu 20.04 nvidia
https://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/how-to-install-nvidia-driver-on-ubuntu/ $ sudo ubuntu-drivers devices $ sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
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ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS
It wasn’t letting me upgrade until I got rid of mutter$sudo apt-get remove mutter
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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 deleted 12 gigs of files I was storing in /dev/shm… Read more
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ubuntu 18.04 stopped working after update
had to boot into single user mode – edit the grub entry – add single near the end of the linux line – search single user mode ubuntu 18.04 Then I had to run the first few startup items so that I had a network – update the software and Read more
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luks usb crypttab ubuntu 18.04
Ran into slow boot on ubuntu 18.04 with local keys for usb drives with luks the magic to avoid slow boot if usb is missing is to add the noauto option in /etc/crypttab e.g. crypt tab entry foo UUID=bar /root/.bletch luks,noauto
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credit default swaps
Using data reported by Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation during the 155 weeks ending June 28, 2013, there were credit default swaps traded on only 13 reference names among U.S. banking firms: Bank of America Corporation Morgan Stanley The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. JPMorgan Chase & Co. Citigroup Inc. Wells Read more
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ubuntu 18.04 manual raid, crypt, lvm highlights
After many days of banging my head against how to get 18.04 installed with raid1, crypt, and lvm on new disks from alternative server iso, the crux was the 1mb bios boot partition at the beginning of both disks. Without that I’d get all the way through the install and Read more