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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog : How to install 10 Band Equalizer for Rhythmbox
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog. Cunning thoughts on Ubuntu. Thursday, August 25, 2016. How to install 10 Band Equalizer for Rhythmbox. I like Rhythmbox on Ubuntu Desktop but it does not come with an equalizer out of the box. Fortunately, there is a 10 band equalizer that you can install as a plugin and it works really well. Here are the steps to install the 10 band equalizer with Rhythmbox version 3 and later:. Create a directory under your home directory for storing the 10 band equalizer plugin.
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog : Well that didn't last long
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog. Cunning thoughts on Ubuntu. Thursday, December 1, 2016. Well that didn't last long. Unfortunately, using Ubuntu Desktop as my primary OS has come to an end just after six months of "giving it the ol' college try". Why, you might ask? Two words: graphics drivers. For over sixteen years, I have contributed spare computing power to SETI@Home. And the fastest way to earn credits is to set up GPU computing on BOINC. Nvidia Proprietary Drivers: After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04...
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog : December 2016
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog. Cunning thoughts on Ubuntu. Thursday, December 1, 2016. Well that didn't last long. Unfortunately, using Ubuntu Desktop as my primary OS has come to an end just after six months of "giving it the ol' college try". Why, you might ask? Two words: graphics drivers. For over sixteen years, I have contributed spare computing power to SETI@Home. And the fastest way to earn credits is to set up GPU computing on BOINC. Nvidia Proprietary Drivers: After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04...
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Dark Side of the Moon Blog: Installing and Configuring Windows 10
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Dark Side of the Moon Blog. Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day. Saturday, December 3, 2016. Installing and Configuring Windows 10. How do you reinstall Windows 10 on a PC or laptop that you bought from the store? Easy, just visit the Download Windows 10. Page and download the MediaCreationTool.exe. To run on your PC. From the tool, when it asks "What do you want to do? You want to select Create installation media for another PC. Before Installing Windows 10. The primary reason to separate t...
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog : Enabling Nvidia Hardware Acceleration in Google Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog. Cunning thoughts on Ubuntu. Tuesday, October 25, 2016. Enabling Nvidia Hardware Acceleration in Google Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04. I bought an ASUS GeForce GTX 750 Ti. For my Ubuntu 16.04 machine to replace an AMD video card and I noticed right away that Chrome was not operating at peak efficiency. So I checked chrome:/ gpu. And sure enough the hardware acceleration was disabled. What to do? First, I looked at chrome:/ settings. Next, I looked at chrome:/ flags. I enabled the "...
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog : How to fix a broken fstab in Ubuntu
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog. Cunning thoughts on Ubuntu. Sunday, August 21, 2016. How to fix a broken fstab in Ubuntu. I was messing around with my /etc/fstab. Settings which connect my Ubuntu desktop to my NAS server via Samba and I screwed it up. When I restarted my desktop, Ubuntu would just hang asking for a password and yet I could not provide the password and get to the login screen. Boot failure! Boot into the Ubuntu Live CD. Run the following commands to mount the partition with the root.
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog : August 2016
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog. Cunning thoughts on Ubuntu. Thursday, August 25, 2016. How to install 10 Band Equalizer for Rhythmbox. I like Rhythmbox on Ubuntu Desktop but it does not come with an equalizer out of the box. Fortunately, there is a 10 band equalizer that you can install as a plugin and it works really well. Here are the steps to install the 10 band equalizer with Rhythmbox version 3 and later:. Create a directory under your home directory for storing the 10 band equalizer plugin. Run the ...
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog : overGrive!
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog. Cunning thoughts on Ubuntu. Sunday, April 10, 2016. In my earlier post about Google Drive for Linux. I enumerated several options available for getting Google Drive to work under Linux. Home/ user /Google Drive. Directory under Ubuntu. I thought this was going to be an easy solution to the problem of not having an official Google Drive client for Linux. I started going through the installation instructions for Ubuntu. And was doing fine until I hit the section about pressin...
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog : Why does Google Chrome use so much RAM?
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog. Cunning thoughts on Ubuntu. Friday, April 8, 2016. Why does Google Chrome use so much RAM? I know this issue is not Linux-specific since Chrome did the same thing on Windows, but I want to bring it up anyway. Currently I have thirteen tabs open in Chrome and this is what System Monitor looks like:. Thirteen tabs, and nineteen out of the top twenty memory hogging processes are chrome. Seriously, how can Google Chrome take up a half-gig. Of memory for just one process? While ...
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog : April 2016
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The Machiavellian Ubuntu Blog. Cunning thoughts on Ubuntu. Sunday, April 10, 2016. In my earlier post about Google Drive for Linux. I enumerated several options available for getting Google Drive to work under Linux. Home/ user /Google Drive. Directory under Ubuntu. I thought this was going to be an easy solution to the problem of not having an official Google Drive client for Linux. I started going through the installation instructions for Ubuntu. And was doing fine until I hit the section about pressin...
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