mekotronicsplz note: “the-best-technology-does-nothing-without-a-good-human-culture” Yes! Read that correctly, modern SmartPhones are actually full blown computers, so why not use them as such? Now that they have enough (RISC) based computational power that they can replace Desktop and Notebooks, problem: they can […]
this has to do with Caja calculating thumbnails for EVERY (!!!) picture ever found in a folder that matches the “below this and that file size” settings. having a picture “preview” possibility in a file manager is neat but if […]
what to expect? (click here for two html embedded test video files, if the user’s browser can playback 264x and 265x) while x264 and x265 are surely great codecs, the re-encoding of x264 to x265 is very CPU and thus […]
How to create an encrypted USB stick Creating an encrypted USB stick under GNU/Linux is fairly ease. First lets install required packages and erase everything from the stick gives good overview of where is what: (in a tree view style) […]
So Tuxedo has no direct cooperation with System76 but maybe with this company: as the “TUXEDO InfinityBook S 14 Gen6” = “System76 Lemur Pro” = “CLEVO L141MU” = HYPERBOOK L14 ULTRA” Clevo sub company in Germany, main company in Poland […]
let’s face it: the internet has become a gigantic surveillance machine, with hundreds of private companies, trying to collect as much data on the user as possible in order to “predict the market” while also using with AI to analyze […]
“to swap, or not to swap, that is the question”: definitely swap more! Shakespeare! “to encrypt, or not to encrypt” (if it contains valuable data: DEFINITELY ENCRYPT!!!) (general tutorial about lvm (logical volume management) “to lvm, or not to lvm” […]
straight after (Debian based) GNU Linux OS setup, usually doing those modifications to: speed up boot & start of programs grub timetout 1sec shotcuts for faster start of programs in MATE Desktop Alt+F2 -> fox, will start firefox (no need […]
can smart phone cameras compete with the “big” ones with big lenses? please support this Open Source, Tech & Privacy dedicated blog 😀 by buying from Amazon Affiliated links: Get the amazing Samsung S21 Ultra 5G with 10x times optical […]
Lenovo Ideapad: What is it and can it run Debian? hint: it’s also not mine. The Lenovo Ideapad is a “notebook-tablet” (a very slim notebook that pretends to be a tablet (it has a touch screen!) 🙂 can it […]
ZFS is probably THE most controversial filesytem in the known universe: “FOSS means that effort is shared across organizations and lowers maintenance costs significantly” (src: comment by JohnFOSS on itsfoss.com) “Mathematicians have a term for this. When you rearrange the […]
inxi – Command line system information script for console and IRC DESCRIPTION It is also used a debugging tool for forum technical support to quickly ascertain users’ system configurations and hardware. inxi shows system hardware, CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop, Kernel, […]
let’s say: in theory – it works – in practice vmware and kvm (RedHat) would REALLY have to work together to make this work for real. in reality – there are (currently) massive sata harddisk driver problems between esxi 6.7 […]
first off the praise: kvm-qemu is a high performance nicely scriptable virtualization system if it works, it can do pretty things 🙂 IN CONTRAST TO iESXI SH** WARE CLONING A VM IS A EASY AS: virt-clone –original debian12 –name debian12-clone […]
short story: phase it out So it finally happened, Oracle wants to cash in on it’s $7.4 Billion investment it made in 2009. The non-Open-Source non-GPL non-Free-Software-coffee has officially gone sour. One can just pray, that this will be a […]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/benchmarking update 2025: very basic cross os distribution monitor harddisk speeds bash script by counting sector read write update 2022: next to the good old (non-destructive if used correctly) “dd” is still the way to go for benchmarking harddisks under […]
for good overview it makes sense to label the harddisk partitions according to functionality (what is their purpose?) GNU Linux bash – how to label partitions tune2fs (xfs & ext4) all infos about one’s harddisk: # tested on: hostnamectl Static […]
i really like virtualbox and i think it has great potential, what i do not like SOOO much is the CIA’s involvement with Oracle. “Larry Ellison Is A Billionaire Today Thanks To The CIA” (src) VirtualBox is mostly GPL 2.0 […]
https://dwaves.de/2023/08/07/looking-for-a-new-soc-or-sbc-new-version-of-starfive-visionfive-2-risc-v-sob-soc-battle-rages-on-raspberry-pi-4-vs-odroid-n2l/ Update: 2023: there seems to be a new version “StarFive VisionFive 2 JH7110 64bit SoC” with 4GB RAM for 84,49 Bucks or 114,49 Bucks for the 8GB RAM version CPU performance is between Raspberry Pi3 and Pi34 also remarkable: price-wise it […]
spoiler alert: this is work in progress… was told by Adaptec support to upgrade firmware. did not do that yet – because firmware upgrades on production systems are sometimes very risky endeavors. one of the most important features of a […]
update: with more or less CPU usage this device uses like 6kWh per day (rough estimate over 30 day measurement) it runs pretty quiet even on 100% CPU load 😊👍🏻🖖🏻🍻 got it cheap on eBay and wanted to take it […]
update: 2022: another x86x odroid is in the making! https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-plus/ $165.00 Estimated next batch : Middle of January, 2023 the itsec troubles: CPU Intel Celeron Processor J Series is Spectre & Meltdown affected (src) while Spectre & Meltdown based hack […]
smart and ssds? and: is smart really that smart? to do regular smart, is better than doing no smart, but as confirmed here, it can be only minutes of time from reporting an error-problem to complete harddisk failure, so smart […]
The good news is: It supports OSX and Linux now. Windows & Linux Servers Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, SharePoint & Active Directory Microsoft Azure & Amazon EC2 cloud workloads Adding a machine running Windows Adding a machine running Linux Adding […]
lvm2 concept: tested on: debian 8-9 and compatible, manpages from centos7/rhel7 in general backup! backup! backup! before fiddeling with partitions and the filesystem… logical volumes basically allow you to span partitions over several disks/partitions as well as resize those partitions. […]
if you want to find out what chipset / mainboard your PC / Laptop / Notebook is using and other details about the hardware. unfortunately this is not a straight forward task… and works better / worse depending on the […]
smart first: one might want to check the SMART status of one’s harddisks to make sure, they are running under normal conditions and do not show signs of failure. pre-benchmark preparations: halt as much programs as possible: one SHOULD suspend […]
examples: non-destructive badblocks -nvs /dev/xxx This would check the drive “sdb” in non-destructive read-write mode and display progress by writing out the block numbers as they are checked. WARNING! DATA LOSS! destructive (-w = write test) update: 2024: want to […]