baumi's personal blog … Linux, OS X, Windows, Random things, …
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/
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 […]