With my SSD still working despite the taped up data port it's time to do some tweaks to squeeze out the most performance I can.
First up we modify the mount points to disable access time writes and enable TRIM
Edit /etc/fstab and add noatime,discard ...
Eager to try out my new Samsung 830 SSD I tried to take a few shortcuts while installing it. It didn't go well.
Due to the orientation of the hard drive cage in my case I need to remove the both side covers to install a hard drive. The ...
Google spreadsheets has a nice ImportHtml function that can import data from a list or table within an html page retrieved using a standard GET request.
This is great for simple cases, but if the source data needs massaging or cannot be retrieved using a GET request then you'll ...
After purchasing some new hardware I was disappointed to find that my new machine would crash randomly every hour or so, seemingly more so while playing games. Something I was quite looking forward to doing.
Using Ubuntu 12.04 with an NVIDIA graphics card ...