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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 Unfortunately, sometimes they're outdated, moreover it's not possible to cover the immensity of system configurations.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 …

Revamping Emotiv Epoc

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 …