So I have a closed loop water cooler on my GPU and I replaced the stock single speed fan with two Noctua PWM fans (doing push/pull) connected to my motherboard. Even though the fans can be seen by lm_sensors and fancontrol the Nvidia GPU does not appear as it’s proprietary driver. I knew nvidia-settings could […]
GitFlow hmmmm
After reading Atlassian worflow comparison and Vincent Driessen original post about GitFlow I have come to realise a couple of worrying things: I incorrectly assumed GitFlow was the same thing as GitHub flow (fork project, do work then pull request) This model appears to be popular but it seems totally archaic to me Requires lots of […]
Ubuntu + Evolution + Exchange
By default Ubuntu does not install the EWS (Exchange Web Service) plugin for Evolution sudo apt-get install evolution-ews Then go into Evolution and choose the following settings: Server Type: Exchange Web Service Username: WINDOWS-DOMAIN\username Host URL: https://webmail.company.com/owa/ Now click “Fetch URL” and it should ask you for a password and populate the Host and OAB […]
AMD ATI Graphics tearing in Chrome on Ubuntu 15.04
I had to switch to using proprietor AMD drivers as the open source ones don’t support audio via display port, but after switching, Chrome was tearing and just going completely black. The chrome GPU page reported no hardware acceleration enabled. So I went to Chrome Flags page and forced GPU acceleration and rasterisation Override software […]
Random Links from Wisdom Stockholm Part 2
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