We desperately need a Medical Device Developer Linux distro. I know I’ve blogged about this before, but with all the wet-behind-the-ears kids thinking Agile is software engineering (it’s not) and that it is okay to push whatever steaming pile of excrement came out the back end of the nightly build onto the installed base because they are the Alpha testers . . . I have to vent again. Our featured image was provided by blog.giddyup.io. … Medical Device Developer LinuxRead more
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Linux and USB Floppy Drives
Everybody thinks they are dead, but floppy disks are still around and you basically need a USB floppy drive to use them because modern motherboards don’t have a header connection for the ribbon cable internal drives need. I now own two USB floppy drives because I forgot I had an IBM portable floppy drive buried under a bunch of portable DVD R/W drives behind a bunch of Super Floppies. Why this post now? I was … Linux and USB Floppy DrivesRead more
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NVIDIA 390 and BOINC
There has been great wailing about BOINC dropping support for the NVIDIA 390 series driver. I’m told some Linux distros don’t even include it anymore. Windows 10 users got to see a black screen after an OS update if they had either a Quadro or NVS 310 because support for the driver was dropped. Sadly they didn’t choose to fall back to generic drivers. Personally I have a small collection of NVS 310 and Quadro … NVIDIA 390 and BOINCRead more
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Linux Cheats
Here is a list of Linux cheats I just want to keep handy. They will be added to as time goes on. When creating OpenSource software, you have to develop and test on many different distros. No, you can’t “just do Ubuntu.” Given the medical devices I help create and the Yocto building I do, I’m constantly frustrated by differing package managers and such. List Installed Packages Fedora Ubuntu 90% of the time I’m looking … Linux CheatsRead more
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Cinnamon – Remove Launcher from Menu
It happens to everybody at some point. When you created a desktop launcher it asked if you wanted to add it to the menu and now you need to remove launcher from menu. Maybe you don’t need the app anymore? Maybe you learned you can’t edit the contents of that launcher? Reason doesn’t matter. What does matter is how Cinnamon hides removal. I will be using Cinnamon on Manjaro for this article. I’ve written about … Cinnamon – Remove Launcher from MenuRead more