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Installing NVIDIA driver

REF: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-nvidia-driver-on-debian-10-buster-linux

sudo apt -y install nvidia-detect
nvidia-detect
sudo apt -y install nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver
sudo reboot

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Fix display not found when running commands under sudo

The following command MUST be run as a normal user to allow the user root to open/use the X11 server.

xhost +si:localuser:root

Then the following command will work:

sudo zenmap

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REF: https://antjanus.com/blog/web-development-tutorials/how-to-grep-in-powershell/

This is what the above site recommends:

cat package.json | Select-String -Pattern webpack

Looks like thre is also a cat alias in powershell.

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Iterm2 is switching to zsh

REF: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/371997/suppressing-zsh-verbose-message-in-macos-catalina

Looks like bash is being deprecated? Anyway, adding the folling to my .bash_profile got rid of the annoying message each time Iterm2 is opened for the first time.

export BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1

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Fix for shutter

REF: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mheffner/shutter/

dnf -y copr enable mheffner/shutter
dnf -y install shutter
dnf -y update shutter

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Issue:

Cannot use Picture-in-Picture while in YouTube TV while using Google Chrome on my laptop running Fedora 30.

Solution:

REF: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubetv/comments/dgtkwt/how_to_force_enable_chromes_pictureinpicture/

Found this on Reddit recently. I have this working in Firefox 69.0.3 on Fedora 30. It works nice. You can move the window and resize.

How To Force Enable Chrome's Picture-in-Picture Feature Policy for YouTube TV [Linux/Mac/Windows]

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Issue:

I have a Power8 server at work that I need to find out the current firmware version installed. The ipmitool does not work for some unknow reason.

Solution:

There are two solutions here:

The last few lines of the following command has the firmware level listed:

[root@hdpss kurtis]# lsvpd | tail -n 6
*FC 

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Issue:

There are times when a newly installed kernel has boot or runtime problems. I need a way to boot a specific kernel automatically.

Solution:

REF: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1605183

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel
# UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make
# new kernels the default
UPDATEDEFAULT=yes

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Issue:

Upgraded my HP server to CentOS 7.5 and now the manual NVIDIA installer I had been using for what seems forever (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.107.run) failed right after the the compilation reached 100%.

Here is a portion of the log file /var/log/nvidia-installer.log

-> Building NVIDIA kernel module:
executing: 'cd ./kernel; /usr/bin/make module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/3.10.0-1062.1.1.el7.x86_64/source SYSOUT=/lib/modules/3.10.0-1062.1.1.el7.x86_64/build NV_BUILD_MODULE_INSTANCES='...
NVIDIA: calling KBUILD...
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-1062.1.1.el7.x86_64'
/usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.10.0-1062.1.1.el7.x86_64/build \