I recently ran sudo apt upgrade to install a new kernel on Ubuntu and I had no sound hardware detected after the upgrade. But it turns out that the extra drivers package was not pulled in when I requested to install a new kernel. You need to ensure you pick the kernel headers and kernel-modules-extra … Read more
I recently installed the 5.8.0-41-generic kernel and I had no detected sound hardware after booting into the new kernel, but it turns out that a package was missing from my machine. I installed this package and then replugged my sound hardware and it worked straight away. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo apt install linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r)┌──[[email protected]]─[~] … Read more
Encoding a silent video could be very useful if the vid is to be encoded and placed into the background of a web page for example. I am putting the video as the main menu of a Call of Chernobyl mod. So I needed a 1080p silent video to run as the background. The -an … Read more
Reduce stamina effects in your Arma 3 mission and make it much more playable. This really does work. You do not even need CfgPatches.
This nice on-liner will list all dotfiles in your home directory that start with b to z. Another good way to accomplish this task. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ ls -hula -d .[b-z]* |grep -v ^d -rw——- 1 jason jason 13K Jun 20 10:45 .bash_history -rw-r–r– 1 jason jason 220 Jun 20 10:45 .bash_logout -rw-rw-r– … Read more
This simple program is a Hello World example that does not use the main() function. This is certainly possible in a C program. #define syscall(a, D, S, d) __asm__ __volatile__("syscall" : : "a"(a), "D"(D), "S"(S), "d"(d)) void _start(void) { syscall(1, 1, "Hello, World\n", 14); syscall(60, 0, 0, 0); }#define syscall(a, D, S, d) __asm__ … Read more
The Adobe flash plugin is ending its days on the Linux platform. The buggy and insecure plugin has been the only way to watch Youtube for many years and now it is winding down. Adobe flash has been a vector for Malware infestations on Windows and Linux platforms. It is time that this was put … Read more