Technical Stuff

The devilspie2  utility is really awesome.  Primarily I use it to keep my browser windows in place and at the right size for my screens.  Caution, these settings are for 4k monitors. Firefox is tricky because I want my compose windows for OWA to be small but I don't get a lot of window information from Firefox. I use separate configuration for google-chrome and that makes it convenient to ID the right window. -- debug_print command does only print anything to stdout -- if devilspie2 is run using the --debug option debug_print("----------------------------------------------------------") debug_print("Window Name:                  " .. get_window_name()); debug_print("Application name:             " .. get_application_name()); debug_print("get_window_geometry():        " .. get_window_geometry()); debug_print("get_window_client_geometry(): " .. get_window_client_geometry()); debug_print("get_window_type():            "

This is my primary work computer. I recently decided to switch from Fedora to Xubuntu. I still like Fedora, but we are using more Ubuntu at work and I need to get myself more familiar with that way of doing things. I am copying a lot of the configuration that I did with my Sager NP9758 laptop configuration. After updating an rebooting, I enabled the Nvidia binary drivers and Intel binary blob. Next step let's get google chrome on here as well as firefox http://askubuntu.com/questions/510056/how-to-install-google-chrome wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list' sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta Apparently installing beta Google Chrome results in a second apt source being created. This causes an error when running `sudo apt-get update`. To fix `sudo v

This is my new baby: 15.6" 4K QFHD Matte Display with G-SYNC Technology (3840 x 2160) Guaranteed no dead or partially-lit pixels for first 30 days of purchasing Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M GPU with 8GB GDDR5 Video Memory 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Processor ( 8MB Smart Cache, 3.40GHz) IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU Windows® 10 Home 64-Bit Edition Preinstalled 16GB Dual Channel DDR4 SDRAM at 2133MHz- 2 X 8GB 250GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SSD (as Storage Drive) 1TB 7200rpm SATA2 Hard Drive Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 M.2 AC Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Module 230W 110V/240V autoswitch AC Adapter I chose this guy as primarily a Linux workstation.  This laptop has a desktop CPU and a mobile Nvidia GPU.  Most importantly, though, the Nvidia chip doesn't use Optimus.  While the newer Nvidia binary blob drivers handle Optimus better (I've had some success with an older Alienware laptop with Optimus.)  But I definitely didn't want to

don't need anything but linux on this guy. deleted intel rst modified bios turned of raid, enabled ahci turned on uefi boot booted usb with xubuntu and installed os to conventional harddrive left ssd empty enabled alternate drivers enable caching on the SSD lvcreate -n CacheMetaLV -L 32M xubuntu-vg /dev/sdb lvcreate -n temp -l 8 xubuntu-vg /dev/sdb lvcreate -n CacheDataLV -l 100%FREE xubuntu-vg /dev/sdb lvremove xubuntu-vg/temp lvconvert --type cache-pool --poolmetadata xubuntu-vg/CacheMetaLV xubuntu-vg/CacheDataLV lvconvert --type cache --cachepool xubuntu-vg/CacheDataLV xubuntu-vg/root lvs -a xubuntu-vg So it turns out that this works fine until you reboot then the rootfs can't be mounted because the init ramdisk lacks some modules These are my reference links: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lvm2/+bug/1423796 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=119644 I deleted the cache and am going to try again. Yep following those in