Linux, Ultrabooks, CUDA and eGPUs

By TeckYian Lim in hardware on

I work mostly on my Dell XPS 9365 these days. Since I'm working with deep learning, it's often helpful to have a GPU locally for experimenting. Since I've been able to get my hands on an Titan RTX, I've decided to go ahead and give my main workhorse a boost…

Portable Ubuntu USB Stick with Persistent Storage

By TeckYian Lim in linux on

UNetBootin allows creation of a such a stick, but it only takes care of creating stuff that's needed for legacy BIOS boot[1]. If you are using UEFI (Macs don't do legacy boot), things won't work as expected. To get it working, add persistent to the "Try Ubuntu without…