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 […]

9 02 2016

Some backup tools you might like: Timeshift http://thesmallsecurity.weebly.com/linux/create-system-restore-points-for-ubuntulinux-mint-using-timeshift (This is what i’m currently using on my Laptops) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/timeshift/ CloneZilla: http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php (This is what i’ve been using previously for my Laptops) rsnapshot (CLI) – uses rsync but keeps multiple revisions using hardlinks: http://rsnapshot.org/ (this is what i’m using to back up my servers) KBackup (GUI) will […]

7 02 2016

check /usr/share/touchegg/touchegg.conf and /home/user/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf to add the three-finger swipe between desktop spaces i’m using <gesture type=”DRAG” fingers=”3″ direction=”LEFT”> <action type=”SEND_KEYS”>Super+Left</action> </gesture> <gesture type=”DRAG” fingers=”3″ direction=”RIGHT”> <action type=”SEND_KEYS”>Super+Right</action> </gesture> this usually works everywhere except on empty desktop, to also make it work on the desktop, check this out: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/elementary-os-luna-tips/ (key is running nautilus!)

7 02 2016

To install proprietary NVIDIA driver: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nvidia-340 nvidia-settings sudo nvidia-xconfig sudo reboot — To go back to Nouveau driver #stop lightdm apt-get –remove purge nvidia* apt-get install –reinstall xserver-xorg-video-nouveau apt-get install –reinstall xserver-xorg-core update-grub reboot sudo apt-get install nouveau-firmware sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg — Also have a look […]

5 02 2016

this blog entry is about elementary OS. #!/bin/bash echo ‘1’ > ‘/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo’; # disable turbo CPU speeds echo ‘1’ > ‘/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct’; # set minimum CPU speed echo ‘100’ > ‘/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct’; # set maximum CPU speed to 100% Screenshot: GNOME Power Statistics: #!/bin/bash echo ‘min_power’ > ‘/sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy’; echo ‘1500’ > ‘/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs’; echo ‘0’ > ‘/proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog’; echo […]