The last few weeks as I have been leaving my local Loblaws I have seen ads all over talking about Click & Collect. I don't know what this is, but in my usual apathetic fashion I ignore it and move on with my life. The last time I went grocery shopping I see a video while I'm waiting in line - my interest is piqued. "Can it really be that easy?" I ask myself with a moderate amount of glee. I love these sorts of "innovations" - shopping online is great - it's easy, comfortable, gives me time to think, and, best of all, I don't have to deal with random people (no offense random people, I'm sure you're very nice!). The website is set up a bit like Netflix with horizontal scrolling food options. Each "aisle" has its own page with categories within the aisle shown. Only a subset of each category is shown and you can delve deeper to see all the possibilities. You can also search for specific items instead of clicking th
Update: As of January 4, 2015 this no longer works for me. I updated and something broke. Getting the error "[36741.873484] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): EVO Push buffer channel allocation failed". Hopefully this is still helpful to some out there however. Well, I have some exciting news - after 2 years of messing around with trying to get my Optimus enabled videocard to work with an external monitor in Linux, I have finally found the right combination of blog posts to make it work. My setup: Lenovo W530 NVIDIA Quadro K1000M videocard Linux Mint 17 (which is based on Ubuntu 14.04 I believe) Credit: scyth and his or her blog post on from December 19, 2013 Lucas and his blog post from May 23, 2014 the commentors of the aforementioned blogs for changes and scripts Preliminaries: So, as scyth mentions one of the ways that you can get an external monitor setup to work with an Optimus card is to go into your bios