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Day 7, Here's a forest walk:
(October 2024)
Einstein
Hurdles #2
Just as I was sitting down for round two of "Install
ProtonVPN on Linux Mint xfce" (see yesterday's
day), having gotten a list of terminal commands from ChatGPT,
the damned internet was working properly again and no longer
blocking my einstein@home uploads and downloads.
While that's good news, I still wanted to see if the
instructions would work, and they did.
To install ProtonVPN in
Linux Mint xfce:
In terminal:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y wget apt-transport-https gnupg dialog
wget -q -O - https://repo.protonvpn.com/debian/public_key.asc
| sudo apt-key add -
You should see: OK
echo "deb https://repo.protonvpn.com/debian stable main" |
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/protonvpn.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y proton-vpn-gnome-desktop
Open ProtonVPN from the 'Start' menu. |
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(Not quite as
straightforward as double-clicking an .exe in Windows...
welcome to Linux.) |
With those successes out of the way I thought I might tackle
that misbehaving graphics card.
A Gigabyte Geforce GTX 780 GHz Edition.
Could its instabilities be due to the factory overclock (I've
encountered this before)? Even logging into windows seemed buggy
and trying to run einstein@home on it promptly resulted in the
driver crashing. It's a hefty card requiring a suitable PSU with
2 x 8-pin power connecters, but I'd pretty much ruled out a PSU
issue since I have two machines that are technically capable.
Having prior experience with MSI Afterburner (I used to
dabble in overclocking), I fired that up (in Windows) and with
the help of ChatGPT trialled a few things. It turned out that by
underclocking the base clock by ~30MHz did the trick (the card
appears to have a ~25% overclock from the factory). I'll have to
keep an eye on it though because different work from the project
can change the demands.
While Afterburner is for Windows there are methods for within
Linux too, so I have the future option of using the card in
there instead.
I began this stint (I participate from the end of October
through to the end of March) in 50th in the UK, I'm hoping I
might get to 40th, ideally without having to shell out on any
additional hardware.
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