Installing an Encrypted Partition with LVM dual boot on Ubuntu 16.04
The Ubuntu 16.04 installer has the option to install full disk encryption using LVM if you are erasing everything on the hard drive. However, if you want to dual boot (use some of the hard drive for...
View Article30 second delays in internet on AT&T U-verse 5268AC FXN modem
My wife and I were running into inexplicable “delays” in our AT&T internet service over WiFi. The speed of the internet would be fine when it worked (speedtests showed good lag/upload/download,...
View ArticleWifi Printing to HP Envy 4500 printer chops off top of page
If you are printing from Ubuntu Linux to an HP Envy 4500 printer and try to print a document with a very small top border, you may find that the printer chops off the very top quarter inch of the page....
View ArticleFirefox scrollbars “Jumping” or “Warping” instead of scrolling when clicked
Recently, the scrollbar behavior of my Firefox web browser changed. The “old” (and expected/desired) behavior is that if you click in the scrollbar area anywhere below the thumb, the thumb moves down...
View ArticleGiving away public Wifi with DD-WRT and VPN
Cliff Notes for setting up a public (unencrypted) wifi hotspot to give free internet to guests with minimal risk to “your” network. Sometimes it’s nice to give people free wifi, especially if you have...
View ArticleMaking bc use scale=8 (or any other configuration) every time you start it.
If you use bc (a command line calculator) frequently, you probably want floating point division by default. You can type “scale=8” every time you open it, or you can set up some environment arguments...
View ArticleEnabling a maximum battery charge amount (charge threshold) on Lenovo X1 in...
Most of the time when using my laptop I am plugged into it’s AC charger. But, I don’t want my lithium-ion battery charged to 100% all of the time, as that is unhealthy for the battery and will lead to...
View ArticleGeeqie image viewer showing only white squares in Ubuntu 21.04
Ubuntu 21.04 uses Wayland (vs X11) and packages a version of the geeqie image viewer that has a bug where this results in displaying white squares instead of images....
View ArticleHow to access your Ubuntu partition if Windows BitLocker has overwritten your...
If you dual boot a Linux install alongside Windows 10, you may run into an issue where the Windows 10 BitLocker (full disk encryption) panics and refuses to boot your computer. (For example, if you...
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Generic WiFi Adapter (SDHC) using the WIFI@SDCF app [Dxingtek/Keytech]
I purchased this (very) generic “WiFi adapter”. (Model AD_wifi_SD) It accepts a Micro SD card, and when powered by a host, generates a wifi network (Default SSID: WiFi@SD, default password: 99999999...
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