Multiple SWAP partitions
Posted: 2020-12-05 Filed under: system | Tags: swap Leave a commentWhenever I do an install, I always create a swap partition. But how about, if I have several hard disk and I am not sure which one would be best? Or if I do not want to waste too much space of a single hard disk? Or just because.
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Wacom input drivers
Posted: 2020-11-05 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: libwacom, wacom, xpurnalpp Leave a commentI bought a Wacom Intuos CTL-4100, since I need to draw some schemes during online meetings and I am really bad with the mouse. I installed libwacom and xournalpp from SBo. Everything works as it should on Slackware -current, however it does not work on 14.2.
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Venn diagrams online
Posted: 2020-11-04 Filed under: Academic, office | Tags: chart, diagram, venn Leave a commentI’ve been preparing some figures, where I need to include Venn diagrams. I am looking to make them proportional to the values. So far, I have not found a way to do this in Gnumeric, WPS Office LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org. I guess, I should find the time to learn a little bit more of R. Meanwhile, I’ve been searching for a quick solution online.
LILO and nvme
Posted: 2020-10-31 Filed under: system | Tags: bios, lilo, lilo.conf, nvme, partitions Leave a commentI recently upgraded to a 1 TB NVME drive and I have Windows 10 on it. The computer boots by default from another disk, a standard SSD, where Slackware -current is installed with LILO. The problem is that selecting Windows from LILO does not boot it. The screen just stays blank. If I specify in the BIOS that the NVME has boot priority, it boots fine.
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