17 02 2016
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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
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 […]
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 […]
10 02 2016
Riley Brandt (professional photographer/videographer from Calgary) is writing about his GNU/Linux workflow, which i found quite interesting http://www.rileybrandt.com/2015/10/15/foss-photo-flow-2015/
10 02 2016
I can do all of my daily business stuff within Elementary OS today, while maintaining nearly the same battery life as with OSX (this required some tweaking – to be fair), there was one issue left that was annoying me: i’m using the “Files” browser and each time i clicked an entry, it would open […]
9 02 2016
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/09/add-brightness-control-elementary-os/ this works nicely, however my personal taste is to have more precise control over low brightness settings. therefore i’ve adjusted the script to do exponential brightness. the two changed functions are in /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/indicator-brightness/indicator-brightness, changes in bold: def set_brightness(brightness): bbb = int(brightness) * int(brightness) / max_brightness subprocess.call([‘pkexec’,’/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper’,’–set-brightness’,”%s” % bbb]) create_menu(ind) def get_curr_brightness(): c = […]
9 02 2016
In Mac OS X, do: 1) Download + extract refind binaries from http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html 2) chmod +x refind-install 3) ./refind-install You will then have a nice boot selector at startup. In case you are changing your fileVault settings under OSX, you might need to re-install rEFInd, which is no problem though, as it will automatically detect […]
9 02 2016
****EL CAPITAN CURRENTLY NOT SUPPORTED**** https://github.com/libyal/libfvde/wiki/Mounting apt-get install automake autopoint aclocal libtool git clone https://github.com/libyal/libfvde.git cd libfvde ./synclibs.sh ./autogen.sh ./configure ./make install ldconfig to get the wipekey: apt-get install sleuthkit mmls /dev/sda # Note down the offset for “Recovery HD” and use that for the next command: fls -r -o 1991877544 /dev/sda | grep -i […]