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How to get llama 2 up and running , in a VM, with no GPU, and limited memory on Ubuntu

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OK I decided to write this up after unsuccessfully being able to find all the required info I needed in one place. In this setup we will be using Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 LTS as the OS. I have this running on a home lab ESXi server 8, on a HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF CPU = Intel Core i7-3770 Installed Memory 16 GB I have some 10K SAS drives installed for the VM's If you have not already, navigate to  Get Ubuntu Server | Download | Ubuntu and download the 22.04.2 LTS ISO Next Lets create our VM that we are going to run this in. *Note Im using ESXi however you can probably do this in Workstation, Fusion, VirtualBox etc The main things to note on the VM creation. Set Ubuntu 64 bit as the guest OS Set your CPU relevant to the physicals CPU, I will be starting with 4 VCPU Set your Memory to as much as you can tolerate, I will be using 12 Disk Space - we are creating a 100G swap file, and the rest of the file can take up some room , so more is better if you can afford it Dont forget to add the U...
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Adobe Blue screen's when 2 PDF's are opened at the same time

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well here is a new one, when you open 2 pdf's at the same time in acrobat reader 9, and you have 2d acceleration enabled (default) windows pukes. found this article that explains it just the same senario except we are using ATI, however disabeling the 2d does fix the problem. Topic Acrobat Reader 9 Crashes PC When Opening 2 Documents Simultaneously (2D Graphics Acceleration Relate shaungupta - 09:31pm Dec 16, 2008 Pacific Hey all, Weird issue. I noticed my Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 crashes when opening two PDF's simultaneously. The first one opens just fine. The second one, a new window opens, but there's only black inside the 2nd Reader window. It finally (after way too long) begins to show the document, and then I get a blue screen of death with a fault in nvlddmkm.sys, the nVidia display driver for my video card. It says it was unable to reset the display drivers, dumps the memory, and reboots. One interesting note is that if I close the "black...
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Easy Uninstaller for Norman Anti Virus

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yes i said Norman (not to be confused with Norton). This POS antivirus has missed countless virus'es , trojans , and backdoors running on workstations and im am more then happy to see it go. for those of you also jumping ship here is a simple vbscript to uninstall Dim WshShell, oExec Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set oExec = WshShell.Exec("C:\Norman\nvc\Bin\Delnvc5.exe /quiet") Do While oExec.Status = 0 WScript.Sleep 100 Loop Dim WshShell2, oExec2 Set WshShell2 = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set oExec2 = WshShell2.Exec("shutdown -r -t 120") Do While oExec2.Status = 0 WScript.Sleep 100 Loop I used a bat file to run this against may workstations with psexec.exe FOR /F %%I IN (clients.txt) DO call :COPYFILES %%I :COPYFILES IF %1 =="" Goto :END copy uninstall.vbs \\%1\c$ psexec.exe \\%1 wscript.exe C:\uninstall.vbs :END
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