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tomwwright / gist:f88e2ddb344cf99f299935e1312da880
Last active November 22, 2022 14:06
Dell XPS 15 9560: Ubuntu 17.10 + Nvidia 384.90 + Nvidia Prime (No Bumblebee) https://medium.com/@tomwwright/better-battery-life-on-ubuntu-17-10-4588b7f72def
# perform a fresh install of Ubuntu 17.10
# upgrade the kernel to v4.13.10
mkdir ~/kernel-v4.13.10
cd ~/kernel-v4.13.10
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13.10/linux-headers-4.13.10-041310_4.13.10-041310.201710270531_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13.10/linux-headers-4.13.10-041310-generic_4.13.10-041310.201710270531_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13.10/linux-image-4.13.10-041310-generic_4.13.10-041310.201710270531_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd ~
wget https://roy.marples.name/downloads/openresolv/openresolv-3.9.0.tar.xz
tar xf openresolv-3.9.0.tar.xz
cd openresolv-3.9.0
./configure
@whizzzkid
whizzzkid / XPS-15 9560 Getting Nvidia To Work on KDE Neon
Last active December 3, 2022 15:43
[XPS 15 Early 2017 9560 kabylake] Making Nvidia Drivers + (CUDA 8 / CUDA 9 / CUDA 9.1) + Bumblebee work together on linux ( Ubuntu / KDE Neon / Linux Mint / debian )
# Instructions for 4.14 and cuda 9.1
# If upgrading from 4.13 and cuda 9.0
$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove libcud*
$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove cuda*
$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove nvidia*
# also remove the container directory direcotory at /usr/local/cuda-9.0/
# Important libs required with 4.14.x with Cuda 9.X
$ sudo apt install libelf1 libelf-dev

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

@ruario
ruario / intro-latest-widevine.md
Last active January 29, 2024 07:53
Fetches the latest Linux Widevine binary so that it can be used by Vivaldi.

With the release of Vivaldi 2.2, this page is now obsolete and unmaintained. Widevine is fetched automatically on post install of our official packages. The information below and the script are left for historical reasons but will not be updated.

If you are using something newer than Vivaldi 2.2, you should not be using this script as there is simply no need. Any need you think you have for it would be a bug IMHO and thus should be logged in a bug report. Before you do so however, you should also checkout the Vivaldi help page on Widevine, on Linux


Summary

A bunch of people asked how they could use this script with pure Chromium on Ubuntu. The following is a quick guide. Though I still suggest you at least try Vivaldi. Who knows, you might like it. Worried about proprietary componants? Remember that libwidevinecdm.so is a b

@application2000
application2000 / how-to-install-latest-gcc-on-ubuntu-lts.txt
Last active May 23, 2024 07:53
How to install latest gcc on Ubuntu LTS (12.04, 14.04, 16.04)
These commands are based on a askubuntu answer http://askubuntu.com/a/581497
To install gcc-6 (gcc-6.1.1), I had to do more stuff as shown below.
USE THOSE COMMANDS AT YOUR OWN RISK. I SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING.
ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
If you are still reading let's carry on with the code.
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get install build-essential software-properties-common -y && \
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y && \
@vasanthk
vasanthk / System Design.md
Last active July 22, 2024 17:59
System Design Cheatsheet

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

  1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system
  • User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
    • Who is going to use it?
    • How are they going to use it?
@vkhorikov
vkhorikov / CustomerController.cs
Last active May 25, 2024 19:53
Handling failures and input errors in a functional way
[HttpPost]
public HttpResponseMessage CreateCustomer(string name, string billingInfo)
{
Result<BillingInfo> billingInfoResult = BillingInfo.Create(billingInfo);
Result<CustomerName> customerNameResult = CustomerName.Create(name);
return Result.Combine(billingInfoResult, customerNameResult)
.OnSuccess(() => _paymentGateway.ChargeCommission(billingInfoResult.Value))
.OnSuccess(() => new Customer(customerNameResult.Value))
.OnSuccess(