I bought a Chromecast so I could wirelessly stream video from my PC to my TV. I don't have a 4k TV and don't intend to buying one anytime soon, so the standard Chromecast seemed reasonable.
I hadn't done much research into the Chromecast and had assumed ...
Soon after turning on my desktop the internet stops working and I need to reset the modem. The suspected culprit is the modem not supporting IPv6 properly.
Current fix is to set the IPv6 settings to ignore in the connections settings.
More SSH goodness.
To set up a SOCKS proxy over ssh simply run
$ ssh -D 1080 user@example.com
and set your browser's SOCKS proxy settings to point to localhost:1080
I found this really handy for downloading research ...
CUDA programming requires the latest nvidia drivers. Manually installing the drivers from the nvidia website causes headaches after a kernel upgrade.
The swat-x PPA provides the latest versions of x.org drivers. These are stable drivers, not bleeding edge.
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php ...