Linux

You’ve tried “sudo pacman -Syu” and you’ve probably tried “sudo pacman -Syyu” but still Arch is reporting that you’re bang up to date yet no updates have arrived for over a month! No, you’re not up to date in the slightest. Your mirror has gone stale. It’s not a big […]

Arch Linux isn’t receiving updates

18 Oct, 2018 in Linux by Geekphreek

We’ve been having an issue at work with our data wrangling boxes and some older USB3 drives, specifically on Debian. It turns out the UAS module breaks some drives from mounting and they never get assigned a device ID correctly. If you plug the USB3 drive in to a USB2 […]

Lacie Rugged USB3 drive not mounting in Linux

9 Apr, 2018 in Linux by Geekphreek

Sometimes it’s painful to do something that should be so simple. Once you’ve gotten through the pain of doing SSSD/AD joining, you’ll want domain groups to be able to do “stuff” without hindrance, maybe. Try this line in the file in /etc/sudoers.d/sudoers (you’ll have to create it): %domain\ users ALL=(ALL) […]

Allow Active Directory Domain Users to sudo without password

6 Feb, 2018 in Linux by Geekphreek

On thing that I find annoying on Linux is that many compositors haven’t implemented full vsync which will give us screen tearing. KDE has it built in as does Mate (I believe), but I use XFCE and while watching a YouTube video or scrolling through sites you see lots of […]