Image from: Link An energy vampire device is the one that consumes electric energy anytime is plugged, even when it is not in use, one of the most common examples nowadays are chargers. Let's first define electric energy consumption. Electric energy consumption Electric energy consumption is measured as a number …
Updated This article was updated to Mint 19 (based in Ubuntu 18.04), NVIDIA-driver 410 and CUDA driver 10.0 There are several posts with instructions for properly installing NVIDIA drivers in Linux. Unfortunately, sometimes they're outdated, moreover it's not possible to cover the immensity of system configurations. After searching …
The Emotiv Epoc is a 14-channel EEG headset that brought the concept of affordable wireless EEG to the general public, paving the road for later portable EEG systems. It has been used for in several studies. Unfortunately, the Epoc presents two characteristics that make some experiments unpractical. (1) The electrode …
A frequent problem in dual-GPU systems is that the PC freezes (kernel panic) when you try to logout, restart or shutdown after changing back from the Intel (integrated) to the NVIDIA (discrete) GPU in Linux. All of this when you're using the NVIDIA drivers (proprietary drivers). When using the NVIDIA …
This project started from the "need" of having a compatible way to point to files indifferently if on Windows or Linux. While both operative systems can handle symbolic links, when the target file is an executable, certain scripts and programs present problems when executed through a symbolic link, as the …
This post is about creating a UEFI-bootable full Linux installation in a USB Flash Drive or External HDD. For sake of simplicity, I'll refer to a USB Flash Drive or a USB External HDD as USB-disk. This procedure is performed in a computer running Windows without installing Linux in the …
Touchpads in laptops are not for everyone, one of the first things to do when a I get a new computer is to plug a mouse and disable the touchpad (TP). Few weeks ago, I noticed a strange behavior, in my laptop, every time I started a session in Windows …
The posh-git-bash prompt, for Git, is a useful tool that shows information about the current status of a local Git repository respect to local and remote (e.g. GitHub) repositories; in this way, it's easy to see if the repository is ahead or behind, has uncommitted changes, is up-to-date, etc …
