baumi's personal blog … Linux, OS X, Windows, Random things, …
18 02 2016
Typical scenario for what i want: downloading a .zip file, double click to “extract in place”. Done. In Elementary OS however, the default archiver keeps bugging me with stupid dialogs like which directory to extract to, it’s not automatically closing after it has finished extracting the archive, … in short: it’s PITA. After installing the […]
17 02 2016
https://krita.org/
17 02 2016
Just found this and can recommend it. – Lots of useful tips collected together in one article, many of which i have done myself before already. http://itsfoss.com/things-todo-elementary-os-freya/
16 02 2016
battery cycle count: cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/cycle_count charging/discharging status: cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status charge full (current capacity): cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_full charge full (design capacity): cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_full_design current charge: cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_now current charge (in percent): cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity battery model: cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/model_name battery manufacturer: cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/manufacturer battery temperature sensor: cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/temp list all parameters: ls -la /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/
16 02 2016
Over the last years, we’ve only been spending money on HGST drives when talking about “conventional” HDDs. Kept recommending HGST to ppl over and over again. Once again, that choice has been confirmed, here is why: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q4-2015/ (For SSDs, Crucial is the way to go … can’t prove it – yet.)
14 02 2016
Elementary OS is working very nicely on my macbook, i’m loving it!! … However, just as i have experienced before in OSX as well – my matte 1680×1050 display has a kinda blue-ish touch when using the default color profile. Under OSX i simply switched to another color profile to fix this and/or was finetuning […]
14 02 2016
I’ve had a Spotify Premium for a couple of months, and back then i’ve also enabled “high quality streaming” in my settings. After downgrading back to a free account, i kept getting an error message “Can’t play current track?” and the problem is you don’t really know what the problem is. In my case, this […]
14 02 2016
I’m still happily using the split-view type of file managers very much. Both in GUI as well as in command line, spread on all kinds of systems from MS-DOS, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X … Here’s a small excourse of what i have been using over all those years since 1989 … ~1989 – […]
11 02 2016
For adding folders with multiple apps inside, check this out: http://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/250/can-i-add-folders-to-the-dock For adding folders, simply drag them out of “Files” app into to the plank dock. For me this was a quite buggy though, so you might need multiple tries. Alternative: For adding “trash” icon or manually a shortcut to e.g. “Downloads” folder: gksu pantheon-files […]
11 02 2016
http://sevenbits.github.io/Mac-Linux-USB-Loader/