GNU Linux – basic harddisks benchmarks with dd and fio (ssds  KINGSTON SKC600512G vs Samsung SSD 850 PRO vs Samsung SSD 860 EVO vs Samsung SSD 870 EVO 1TB) – ntfs vs ext4 – how fast are virtual harddisks?
13.Nov.2020

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/benchmarking update 2022: next to the good old (non-destructive if used correctly) “dd” is still the way to go for benchmarking harddisks under GNU Linux. if there is a desktop: “gnome-disk-utility“ fio as always: UNIX: KISS! KEEP IT SIMPLE!) https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/fio-1.12.0 […]

Starlink starts first beta demo – world coverage by 2021
27.Oct.2020

  “Better Than Nothing” Starlink-Beta started across the US & Canada Starlink: amazing but and also a bit “crazy” “On 15 October 2019, the United States Federal Communications Commission submitted filings to the International Telecommunication Union on SpaceX’s behalf to […]

old but still rocking games – Severance – Blade of Darkness
12.Sep.2020

“Knights, Orks and Skeletons (of course)” Severance Blade of Darkness (2001) is an very very old (almost 20 (!!!) years now) open world adventure game almost a “Lara Croft” in “the middle ages” meeting Orks from “Lord of the Rings” […]

11.Sep.2020

no! 6360 doe not receive further firmware support (latest firmware as of today is 6.5) 6360 does not seem to support EuroDOCSIS 3.0 or EuroDOCSIS 3.1 initial setup via DOCSIS 2.0 is working (register the device at Vodafone) but then […]

Freetz Alternative Firmware for Older FritzBoxes
17.Aug.2020

JavaScript can compromise the user’s network devices! pretty evil are devices/routers with security problems, that can be exploited from javascript. so basically opening a webpage with a browser that has javascript enabled (which most browsers have) might scan the user’s […]

Odroid H2 as ventilator cooling ventilation airmachine
13.Aug.2020

finally summer and climate change have both reached Europe and had several weeks of 30 C straight… without ventilation, anything above 30 is just “too much to think” (so maybe the brain CPU also would need active cooling?) of course […]

how to copy and paste outside of vim – system clipboard to another other gui applications – the 1 million lines text editor benchmark onemillionlines.txt
28.Jul.2020

what is the problem? https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/13564/why-is-vim-for-debian-compiled-without-clipboard for whatever reasons a lot of vim packages come compiled without system -clipboard support. furthermore: for copy & paste per default vim uses it’s own registers (not the default primary and secondary system clipboard that […]