9 08 2017

try: aplay -l to list all devices, then for each available device, try: speaker-test -c 2 -r 48000 -D hw:, #e.g. tested and working for Thinkpad X260 and X270: speaker-test -c 2 -r 48000 -D hw:0,7 This should bring up HDMI audio for at least one of the devices. In my case, for SAMSUNG LED […]

20 07 2017

http://eshop.sintech.cn/ngff-m2-pcie-ssd-card-as-2013-2014-2015-macbook-ssd-p-1139.html

19 07 2017

try to edit /etc/default/tlp and find: DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_BAT=”128 128″ which is slow for VMware Workstation on battery for Thinkpad X250 and T450s … Change the default to: DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_BAT=”254 254″ and then do a sudo tlp start which works much better for me …

11 07 2017

#!/bin/bash echo >/tmp/smart for disk in /dev/sd[a-h] ; do echo -e -n “\n\n$disk – ” >> /tmp/smart smartctl -s on –all $disk | egrep “Power_On_Hours|Power_Cycle_Count|Reallocated_Sector_Ct|result” >> /tmp/smart 2>&1 done cat /tmp/smart cat /tmp/smart | /usr/bin/mail -E -s ‘SMART Report’ receiver@server.com

6 07 2017

http://www.ewams.net/?date=2014/03/29&view=Expanding_a_RAID6_volume_with_mdadm

24 06 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/EE345M/Arm_EE382N_4.pdf

24 06 2017

While TeamViewer seems to be the best solution on the market, their licensing model is really, really bad in my opinion. It’s expensive and you are regularly forced into updates otherwise you cannot connect to newer clients anymore – i would be willing to pay for TeamViewer, but i think it’s quite overpriced for what […]

22 06 2017

zip -r -s 2g archive.zip folder/

20 06 2017

UPDATE 08/2017: decided against purchasing MateBook X. Thinkpad X2xx series remains first choice due to battery life. I LOVE Thinkpads, they’re great. But … visually i fell in love with the design of HUAWEI’s Matebook X … such a beautiful machine! I’m collecting some infos about MateBook X specs and Linux here. It’s a beautiful […]

4 06 2017

Server: https://www.tecmint.com/enable-desktop-sharing-in-ubuntu-linux-mint/ Client: Remmina http://www.remmina.org/wp/ (leave user / pw empty … VNC password will be asked for seperately)