baumi's personal blog … Linux, OS X, Windows, Random things, …
4 01 2017
UPDATE – Better, easier way taken from http://askubuntu.com/questions/4950/how-to-stop-using-built-in-home-directory-encryption 1 .Backup the home directory while you are logged in sudo cp -rp /home/user /home/user.backup 1.1. Check that your home backup has everything!!! 2. reboot into single user mode via grub (shift during boot, edit, add “single” as a parameter. for details see https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-boot-into-single-user-mode/) 3. Delete your […]
4 01 2017
During extensive configuration of my new system i did a f***up and ended up having a system that doesn’t boot but holding all data, and luckily – i’ve had a several days old bootable system (without the most recent data). So i ended up restoring the bootable system and then trying to mount the 1:1 […]
4 01 2017
Usually every file read access also produces writes to the SSD, because the system updates the file atime (access time). For most systems you can safely turn it off, which will not only give a small speed increase but also prolong the lifetime of your SSD: sudo vi /etc/fstab # [file system] [mount point] [type] […]
3 01 2017
boot gparted live sudo su – lsblk fdisk /dev/sda p d d n e n w lsblk cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 crypt pvs lvs swapoff -a pvresize /dev/mapper/crypt lvresize -l +100%FREE /dev/elementary-vg/root swapon lvs pvs e2fsck -f /dev/elementary-vg/root resize2fs /dev/elementary-vg/root lvs pvs lsblk reboot
1 01 2017
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31 12 2016
I would have loved to upgrade to a new macbook pro this year. Unfortunately, Apple made it quite unattractive (to say it in a very diplomatic way ^^). I have been working for years now on a MBP mid-2012 (previously early 2011), hires matte display, 16GB ram, 1TB flash drive. So in order to get […]
28 12 2016
1) Download OSX disk image for VMware: Mojave: https://www.geekrar.com/download-macos-mojave-vmware-virtualbox/ Sierra: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2BGAPbTu7vhM1M1THdhX01Jejg 2) Get VMware workstation and/or player http://www.vmware.com/products/player/playerpro-evaluation.html 3) Install VMware unlocker, see https://blog.b-nm.at/2016/12/27/vmware-unlocker-for-os-x/ If you get IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0’ substitute ‘/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0’ with ‘/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so/libvmwarebase.so’ in lnx-install.sh and unlocker.py, then rerun lnx-install.sh 4) Create new VM for “maxOS OSX”. If […]
27 12 2016
UPDATE 05/2017: when updating VMware workstation, the suspended/paused OSX VM seems to work fine but won’t boot up again (e.g. after updating to the latest OSX version which requires a reboot). I had to reinstall the unlocker and it’s working again … i’m still using unlocker v2.0.8 but on git there is a 2.0.9: https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker […]
25 12 2016
For a long time i have been looking for an open source alternative to Billings OSX (the original, one-time purchase version – i’ve refused to upgrade to the newer SAAS licensing model). As i’m now fully on linux, i HAVE to have an alternative. InvoicePlane looks pretty nice, could be it! https://invoiceplane.com/ I will be […]
23 12 2016
On Windows: Download the plugin binary, copy into the plugins folder under c:\program files\keepas … then do import -> 1password .1pif … https://github.com/diimdeep/1P2KeePass. You will need to do this once per Tresor, in case you are using multiple. Please note that all folders and data will be transferred, however the file attachments will not be […]