Ubuntu: Failed to start Nvidia Persistence Daemon

by | Jul 14, 2018 | Linux / Ubuntu

The nvidia-persistenced group/user is created by the install script in the nvidia-utils package (or equivalent if you use one from the AUR). Reinstalling nvidia-utils will recreate the needed nvidia-persistenced group/user. Without reinstalling you can directly run...

ssh: how to fix warning about ECDSA host key

by | Jul 14, 2018 | Linux / Ubuntu

I’m trying to setup password-less SSH on an Ubuntu server with ssh-copy-id myuser@myserver, but I’m getting the error: Warning: the ECDSA host key for ‘myserver’ differs from the key for the IP address ‘192.168.1.123’ What’s...

A PRIVATE GIT SERVER CRASH COURSE

by | Jul 14, 2018 | Raspberry Pi

At this point, everyone has already heard that Microsoft is buying GitHub. Acquisitions of this scale take time, but most expect everything to be official by 2019. The general opinion online seems to be one of unease, and rightfully so. Even if we ignore Microsoft’s...

Migrating to Amazon Linux 2

by | Jul 7, 2018 | AWS

I run all my EC2 workloads on Amazon Linux. It comes with a superb AWS integration, a secure default configuration, regular security updates, and I can open AWS Support tickets if I run into any problems. In late December 2017, AWS announced the successor of Amazon...