The local DNS you use in China is probably contaminated
and popular sites like Google, Facebook, etc. are not interpreted correctly.
So if you are in China and use Firefox with Proxy,
make sure to set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to be true (follow steps below).
Open an empty tab in …
Almost all sychronization tools have problems with symbolic links. Most of them just ignore symbolic links. This makes sense as following symbolic links can causes serious disk problems. If not followed then symbolic links are likely broken on other device. The simple suggestion is do not place …
Install Nvidia cuda-drivers (or equivalent) on your Linux machine
following instructions at
CUDA Downloads.
Notice that instead of installing cuda (using sudo apt-get install cuda),
it is suggested that you install cuda-drivers only (using sudo apt-get install cuda-drivers).
This is …
The performance of IO is extremely bad if you access the the Windows filesystem from WSL 2. This is also true if you use Docker in WSL 2 (since Docker on WSL 2 share the same kernel as WSL 2). It is suggested that you stick to WSL …
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Docker has built-in support for init process (which is based on tini) now.
In short,
you just have to specify the option --init
when you start a container using …
Suppose you have virtual hard disk in VirtualBox called xp.vdi,
you can resize it (megabytes) using the following command.
VBoxManage modifyhd xp.vdi --resize 40960
The command currently doesn't support vmdk virtual disk.
So if you have a virtual disk called xp.vmdk,
you have to first convert it …