As part of an ongoing series of improvements to a remote control car I bought at a thrift store, I needed a stream of GPS data from a Sierra Wireless Overdrive Pro 3G/4G hotspot (which, coincidentally, I also picked up at a thrift store). After registering the device with my carrier, logging into the admin […]
Continue reading...Update: This xorg.conf is confirmed working with the described setup after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04. The upgrade will rename the file and attempt to use no xorg.conf; however, placing it back as “xorg.conf” within /etc/X11/ and restarting brings back a working triple-monitor configuration. At work I use a Dell Optiplex 7010 with a Radeon HD […]
Continue reading...I’m a huge fan of the default background for Ubuntu 13.10, but my current setup involves two 1280×1024 monitors and setting the same background for both doesn’t look quite how I’d like. With that in mind, I created a 2560×1024 image with a similar color palette and style in GIMP, and decided to share it […]
Continue reading...It’s way past when you should have gone to sleep, but you’d just like to update one more time, download this file, build and install it, and restart a couple of services. The bed is calling, though. Luckily, the notion that Linux users can work computers in their sleep is actually quite accurate. Let’s take […]
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