But i alway forget a list of applications i default back to when i switch back to Debian, so here’s a list of stuff i install or configure (some applications i also use in windows) :

• Dash to Panel
• gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 (or what ever version you need, you need this for arcmenu)
• Extension manager
• arcmenu
• tilix
• Steam (from steampowered, not the debian package)
• Bambu Lab Studio
• Discord
• whatpulse
  • pcap https://github.com/whatpulse/linux-external-pcap-service
• Solaar
• AppimageLauncher https://assassinate-you.net//tags/appimagelauncher/
• AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support (Yes that’s the complete name)
• git-all
• filezilla

Adding my account to sudoer list

• Start terminal
• Do “su -“
• “adduser username sudo” (replace username by my account)
• “chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers”
• “usermod -aG sudo username”
• “nano /etc/sudoers”
  • Beneath “root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL” add:
  • “username ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL”
• Now start a new terminal and you should be able to do “sudo what ever”

Adding Visual Studio Code

• Go to: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux
• Select the option at number 3, copy the line at number 1 and start a terminal window
• Paste the info you just copied and press enter. Because the line wants to add a GPG key signed by microsoft to your repository you have to enter your password to approve.
• Now enter the following command: “sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.sources” and enter the info under 3.2 and save the file (ctrl_+x – Y – Enter)
• And execute everything under step 3.3

After that Visual Studio Code is installed.

Installation NVIDIA drivers:

$ wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian13/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get -y install cuda-drivers
From: https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1jyzgrx/the_correct_way_to_install_newer_nvidia_drivers/

Today i bought a new mini digle. It sticks out for about one cm, so the change it will be broken is a bit smaller then the original.

Unfortunately the driver isn’t included in the kernel. Long live google! I came across a post that linked to another page with the solution that worked for me. To make sure the solution can still be found i post the steps here:

git clone https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu.git
cd rtl88x2bu
VER=$(sed -n 's/\PACKAGE_VERSION="\(.*\)"/\1/p' dkms.conf)
sudo rsync -rvhP ./ /usr/src/rtl88x2bu-${VER}
sudo dkms add -m rtl88x2bu -v ${VER}
sudo dkms build -m rtl88x2bu -v ${VER}
sudo dkms install -m rtl88x2bu -v ${VER}
sudo modprobe 88x2bu

Thanks to MonkeyDLuffy for the solution!

Now we are almost getting to the end of first half of the year, i want to start my top 20 list early. This, so i can remove songs, add songs and write why i have added the song. The list will be in a top 20 style, but for the top 2000 list it doesn’t matter if it’s on number 1 or 20.

1. Slayer – Angel of Death. Of course the song has a dark tone, but in this case it was a way to make fun of the top 2000. Really heavy songs weren’t a thing and someone wanted the make fun of the list. So a lot of people voted for that song and since 2012 (accept for 2013) it’s in the list every year, even making it to place 171 in
2. Metallica – One. Not a big Metallica fan, but still love this song. If you see the clip and listen to the song, we are glad that soldiers defend for us, but when they come back not in one peace we don’t really know how to handle it.
3. Wim Sonneveld – Het Dorp. This is an oldie. It’s about an old village where everyone knew everyone and everything was simpler, but they had to go with the times and modernize. For me it reminds me about going to my grandparents and going down a small alleyway behind the housing block and grandpa and grandma were always happy when we were there. Also from time to time i think the current time we are living are to complicated.
4. Radiohead – Creep. This song was around when i was at an adolescent age. Radiohead summed it all up in this song.
5. Pearl Jam – Alive. When i was around 16 my dad had bought a moped to sell it again. When he didn’t sell it, i started using it. Eventually crashed the moped in a car and breaking my collar bone and busted all gristle underneath below my knee cap. After the accident i was happy to be alive.
6. Red hot chili peppers – Under the bridge. For me the only real good song of RHCP.
7. BLØF & Geike – Zoutelande. Not a fan of Blof, but the song with Geike Arnaert (a Belgian female singer for Hooverphonic), is an easy listening that takes you to a place in Zeeland to an old sea shack where you are with a couple of friends and you are having a good time and make memories that last.
8. Within Temptation – Ice queen.
9. Falco – Jeanny
10. Oasis – Wonderwall
11. Marillion – Kayleigh
12. Volbeat – Sad mans tongue
13. Doe Maar – Watje. When Doe Maar first broke up I was i think 7 years old. Although I liked the music I didn’t really have an issue with it. Through the years would listen to Doe Maar a lot more and when the reunion was there I wanted to see them. They released a new album and this one was on that album. It really describes the madness that until this day is in our society.
14. Alice Cooper – Poison
15. DJ Paul Elstak – Rainbow in the sky
16. Evanescence – Bring me to life
17. Johnny Cash – Hurt. In every top 20 there should be a Johnny Cash number. This song is a cover from Nine Inch Nails, and although Johnny Cash didn’t write it himself, i think it really tells a tale about the life of him.
18. Tenacious D – Tribute
19. Europe – Final Countdown
20. Jeff Wayne & Justin Hayward – Forever Autumn. When I did my internship at a computer company my colleague had the CD “War of the Worlds” with him, and we listened to it a lot. The more I listen to it, the better it gets, even now. Have seen the show once and would like to see it again.

Reserve list (for now)

• Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Völlig Losgelöst). Every year during the TV presentation of the Top 2000 there are small documentaries about some songs. I heard this song in early 1980’s on the radio and I really liked the chorus, which are a bit spacy. The song was a tribute to Space Odity of David Bowie. The song (and album) even was translated to English for the world wide audience. The song is on the reserve list for now, but will be in the top 20 before the end of the year.
• Johnny Cash – Ring of fire. Johnny Cash needs to be on any list. Although this song was first in the Top 20, but i’ve moved this one out of the top 20, and added Hurt to the list.
• Stiltskin – Inside. Unfortunatly Stiltskin was a one hit wonder. The song they are known for is a nice rock song with a sweeping voice. The singer (Ray Wilson) was even the singer for Genesis from 1996 until 2000.
• R.E.M. – Losing my religion. A nice uncomplicated song.

This list will be updated through the year. Songs moved into the top 20, some out, some maybe back in. I will document what has changed.

Update 2023-05-17:

• Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire. out of the top 20, Johnny Cash – Hurt in the top 20.
• Doe Maar – Sinds een dag of 2 out of the top 20, Doe Maar – Watje in the top 20.

Update 2023-05-25:

• Stiltskin – Inside: Added to the reserve list.

Update 2023-11-22:

• Added R.E.M.

Lately i’ve been picking up on my Python skills and installed Microsoft Visual studio Code. Eventually noticed in Afterburner that my GPU speed had dropped to 845MHZ, well below the standard speed of 1215Mhz. I couldn’t change anything with Afterburner, could add 500Mhz, when i pressed apply, the speed maintained at 845Mhz. After elimination i say my GPU speed picked up after closing Visual Studio Code (changed the core clock speed back to +200Mhz before testing). First i thought it was because of Python that was running with DLIB (using CUDA, a GPU enhanced library for images), but then is saw that DLIB wasn’t using the GPU, it was compiled withCUDA disabled. So the image processing was done by the CPU.

It took a while to make DLIB work with CUDA in Windows (Python and DLIB’s main focus is Linux, so information is not great about issues in Windows), but eventually got DLIB working with CUDA.
But my main problem wasn’t still over: my GPU going down from an overclocked 1.415Mhz to 845Mhz when starting Studio Code. Apparently this is due to hardware acceleration in Studio Code. Disabled this and my GPU is purring nicely at 1.415Mhz after starting Visual Studio Code.
If you run into the same issues here is how to fix it:

Your Visuals Tsudio Code, should be snooping any Mhz from your GPU anymore.

I don’t know what the effects are for othe things, but because i’m running some Python, Powershell and PHP scripts, i don’t really think i need hardware acceleration in my Visual Studio Code.

Ow PS with the change to +200Mhz the amount of Mkeys went up from 900Mkey/s to about 1.05Mkey/s. so, NICE!

Found the information on: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29966747/how-can-i-disable-gpu-rendering-in-visual-studio-code<

After a while i found out that OSMC had upgraded to PHP version 7, while Spotweb was only working with PHP version 5. So what to do? The default installations work great when you have a default PHP version 5, search on the internet, combine a couple of guides so you can “upgrade” to PHP 5. And to let people also have fun with Spotweb, here is the guide.

First update everything to the latest version:
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi
Back on the command line execute:
wget -q -O – http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian.public.key |apt-key add
After that do an:
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
If everything is ok, nothing will be updated.

Now install php5, mysql client and apache2:
apt-get install php5-mysql php5 apache2 php5-curl php5-gd php5-gmp 
(Please note, mysql (mariadb in fact) is running on another server)
Accept the changes by pressing: Y and press enter.

You probably get an error, that’s because OSMC has a server running on the same webport. Let’s change that:
nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
The first line ends with *:80, change this to *:8080 and save it (CTRL+X -> y -> Enter)
Then we need to edit the ports file from apache:
nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf
change the line that states Lines 80 and change it to Lines 8080 and save it (CTRL+X -> y -> Enter).

Now we can start apache2:
/etc/init.d/apache2 start
Try to connect to the website using the ip-address with the portnumber added:

192.168.178.123:8080

(ip-address can change to your setup) If everything went as planned you have a website.

Now we configure PHP:
We’ve got to change the timezone:

sed -i "s/^;date.timezone =.*/date.timezone = Europe\/Amsterdam/" /etc/php5/*/php.ini

(Change the timezone to your own, this is my timezone)

The next part is a bit difficult, because as i said, my database is running on another server, and that part is already installed. look at: https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb/wiki/Install-Spotweb-on-Ubuntu-12.04-LTS-(Precise-Pangolin)-(english) for the configuration, part of this post is also comming from there btw.

Based upon the other website, i hope you have configured the SQL part.

Now you have 2 options, installing spotweb using apt-get, but i wouldn’t recommend it. The version of spotweb on the repository is of 2013 and although spotweb from github isn’t actively maintained anymore, it’s still more recent then using apt-get.

To install spotweb using github do the following:

wget https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb/tarball/master
tar -xvzf master
sudo mv spotweb-spotweb-* /var/www/html/spotweb
rm master
cd /var/www/html/spotweb
mkdir cache
chown www-data:www-data * -R

Now we can connect to spotweb using the website:

192.168.178.123:8080/spotweb/install.php

On the first page everything should be fine, the only options that maybe need some attention are:
Database support: At least one of the database components should give OK, the others can be “NOT OK”.
Own settings file: i don’t really make a custom settings file, so that can stay as “NOT OK”.
Click “Next”

The database components need to be changed to accomodate your settings. Like i said my database is on another server, so i changed the settings to the other server. When done, click verufy database and if everything is done correctly, you continue.

Then enter the information of your usenet provider. You can select a set of preconfigured usenet providers or ad a custom one (last item of the pulldown menu). When done click verify.

In the next menu you select what type of spotweb enviroment you want. In my case I checked “Single User” and added my info and clicked create system.

If everything goes ok you will get a new screen that gives you the content of your dbsettings.inc.php. If you are using a program to make a connection to your server, you can copy paste the content. In the worst case you need to type it.

cd /var/www/html/spotweb
nano dbsettings.inc.php
<copy paste the website content>
CTRL+X -> Y -> ENTER

While you are in a shell also do the following:

cd bin
php upgrade-db.php
php upgrade-db.php

(Yes run the last line twice. An index wasn’t created, so running it twice fixed that issue)
Then switch back to your website and click on the link “Visit your spotwebsite”

DONE!!

Used resources:
https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb/wiki/Install-Spotweb-on-Ubuntu-12.04-LTS-(Precise-Pangolin)-(english)

First check in Zeal if you don’t have the following option set (especially to F1):
Start Zeal, go to General, under the head “Global Shortcuts“. This should be anything except F1. (It shouldn’t be a lot more, but for this example it shouldn’t be F1), click apply and OK.

Next part:
Find the directory that Zeal is installed. Easiest way is to click start, enter Zeal in the “Search programs and files” (W7) and then right click on the Zeal application icon, and the properties. In the new little screen there is a “Start in” box, copy the contents and click cancel. Click on the start button again and type “cmd” (without the “) and hit enter. In the black box type in “cd ” (including the space). Right click in the black screen and select in the menu “Paste” and hit enter. (Please note CTRL+V doesn’t work here). If everything is correct you are in the working directory from Zeal.
type the following commands:
“zeal.exe –unregister” <enter>
“zeal.exe –register” <enter>
if everything went correctly Zeal and CodeLite should be playing nice again. In the black box type in “exit” <enter>. The black box closes again, start CodeLite again and happy scripting/programming/whatever you do in CodeLite.

Hopefully this can help you further, and “if no one else can help you, maybe you can hire the A-team!”