9 articles tagged linux.
Efficient video encoding has meant that sharing mp4/webm files has become more widespread. However for tools that don't readily support video playback (Google Slides..), it's sometimes still necessary to use gifs. Happily, ffmpeg makes this very easy!
When trying to update Chrome in Ubuntu 24, I ran into a warning about a libglib dependency not being met. Fixing this highlighted some interesting gaps between the GUI and CLI tools in Ubuntu which try to do the same thing, but in different ways.
Ollama is a great tool for running local LLMs. However, if you're using an older AMD graphics card in Ubuntu, it may not be making best use of your resources! Find out how to speed up your local LLMs running through Ollama.
Updates to Ubuntu 24.04 led to regular loss of wifi connection, often requiring a hard reboot. As ever with Ubuntu, there are about 3,928 possible solutions to any given problem. Here's the path which ultimately worked for me!
Eircom's eFibre product is their fastest home broadband offering, promising speeds of up to 100mb. The connection speeds are generally quite good, being capable of handling TV, Netflix and a handful of other connected devices all at once without any real issue on the speed. However the one black mark against the service would be the intermittent issues with the eircom DNS servers. This can often cause internet connection problems, where the net connection shows as active but nothing loads. Frustrating!
Recently I ran in to a particularly odd database problem – a mysql table that both existed and didn’t at the same time.
Recently I needed to move a database I had running in RDS to a machine on a new digitalocean account. Usually a fairly simple process, the first step of which is to export the database using mysqldump. But when I ran the command locally, I got an unusual error - "Couldn't execute 'SET OPTION SQL_QUOTE_SHOW_CREATE=1':You have an error in your SQL syntax"
On several recent projects I’ve been using VirtualBox and Vagrant to spin up new development machines. My code was mounted from a windows host, and initially all was going well. Then suddenly my app started spitting out javascript errors. Digging in to chrome’s error console, it looked like the last 40 or 50 bytes of the file were missing. Same for the CSS files. A frustrating investigation had begun...
Recently I was working on a new project on a virtual box set up through vagrant. For those of you who haven't used it, vagrant is an amazing tool that makes it crazy-easy to set up and deploy uniform development environments on virtual servers. However, I ran in to a very frustrating issue when trying to install the node.js framework express through npm.