Tag: hardware

NVIDIA Linux drivers, PowerMizer, Coolbits, Performance Levels and GPU fan settings

Whew, I know that’s a long title for a post, but I wanted to make sure that I mentioned every term so that people having the same problem could readily find the post that explains what solved it for me. For some time now (ever since the 346.x series [340.76, which was the last driver …

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Linux firmware for iwlwifi ucode failed with error -2

A couple weeks ago, I decided to update my primary laptop’s kernel from 4.0 to 4.5. Everything went smoothly with the exception of my wireless networking. This particular laptop uses the a wifi chipset that is controlled by the Intel Wireless DVM Firmware: #lspci | grep ‘Network controller’ 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N …

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Sling TV streaming: The good, the bad, and the ugly

I’m not much of a television watcher, but recently I thought that I would check out Sling TV for streaming live television stations. Seeing as I also have an Amazon FireTV, the choice seemed to be an easy one, and since they were offering a 7-day free trial, I had nothing to lose. After my …

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