Monthly Archives: March 2014

NVIDIA Drivers on Ubuntu 13.10

Posted on March 19, 2014 by tom

Installing NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 13.10. This article is heavily based on memory and my previous article on accomplishing the same for Fedora from a year ago. The good news, things have gotten easier in the meantime. Installing nvidia’s binary … Continue reading →

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Creating and Verifying Signatures with OpenSSL

Posted on March 18, 2014 by tom

Signatures are used to verify that a given person has signed a given sequence of bytes. We will be using openssl to generate signatures and see what the outcome looks like. First, let us create a new key for this … Continue reading →

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Building a UEFI Secure Boot Enabled Virtual Machine

Posted on March 3, 2014 by tom

In the following, we will show how to setup a QEMU Virtual Machine with a Secure Boot Enabled UEFI BIOS. This makes for a perfect UEFI Development Environment. The instructions below have been tested on an UBuntu 13.10 installation. Instructions … Continue reading →

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