Category Archives: Linux

How to fake pings and traceroutes

By | 21st April 2017

I recently read Srijit Banerjee’s excellent article, which brought to light ugly things done by service providers to fool their customers who have grown accustomed to the ping google.com command to judge the quality of the internet. While he has strayed away from how this is done, I feel that educating people on how this… Read More »

How to fix “Not logged into Rocket League servers” error on Linux

By | 28th January 2017

Encounter the “Not logged into Rocket League servers” error while trying to get online on the Rocket League game on Linux? Here’s a fix. Rocket League needs SSL to communicate with their servers. So the first steps would be to: Make sure the system time and date is correct. I use UTC hardware clock. Make… Read More »

How to use AMDGPU driver for Southern Islands and Sea Islands card on Ubuntu Linux

By | 19th December 2016

These instructions apply only for GCN 1.0/Southern Island cards and GCN 1.1/Sea Islands cards. You can check if your card falls in this categories here. The AMDGPU driver is a newer driver for GNU/Linux and promises better performance and Vulkan support. You will need to do two steps to make it work. Userspace drivers –… Read More »