Dan's technical ramblings
This mini guide will show you how to rebuild the exact version of FFmpeg that comes with your version of Ubuntu and just add support for NVidia GPU encoding via the NVENC API and ACC via libfdk_aac. # Download and unzip the NVIDIA Video Codec SDK from https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk wget https://developer.nvidia.com/video-sdk-601 unzip nvidia_video_sdk_6.0.1.zip # Copy the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]