Linux Tipps, Fixes & More

After lots of experimentation, it turned out that the best boot parameter so far (Ubuntu 16.10 alpha July 2016) is: pci=noacpi Otherwise (e....

If you simply want to adjust some priorities, here is how to do it in three steps. sudo systemctl edit [service] sudo systemctl daemon...

Note this will remove all images, not just stale ones. Set rkt to point to your rkt binary. #!/bin/sh rkt="./rkt/rkt" images="...

If you have two networks and you want to wake a machine in another from network it can be tricky because you can't always set the destin...

If you have a badly corrupted filesystem, e.g. because you had back blocks on the hard drive, you have want to take some precautions to make...

The fix for this problem may be extremely easy. What happened is that some disks of the raid failed. They were ejected. This happens. But th...

If Windows XP, Windows 7, maybe even Windows 8 or later don't detect all your CPUs in KVM, you may need to change the settings. Windows ...

If you're running Windows XP inside a Virtual Machine such as VirtualBox, Vmware or KVM, you may want to sometimes boot with only one ac...

It took me about a year to collect this information. There are many guides, but all I found are incomplete. Here's the one guide to rule...

Since ownCloud supports server to server sharing you can access public shares via webdav clients . You simply use the access token (t=...)...

I had seriously considered to use a raspberry pi system for setting up my ownCloud server. But the old pi had pretty much the same capabi...

There is a nerdy and a simple way. The simple way is to use the google data export ("takeout") pages. You select your photos, cre...

This works at least from my Samsung galaxy S4: you press the power button for a few seconds until you see the pop-up to turn off the device,...

If you get this error code there is an issue with the sound output. If you use pulse, kill the pulseaudio process. Then close the browser,...

If you have a segmentation fault during the start of a VirtualBox machine, you are likely using an old, incompatible version of the VirtualB...

Usually smartctl -a works out of the box. But sometimes it doesn't. In that case, try using the option -d sat, e.g. smartctl -d sat -a...

You can enter a manual storage path. It must be setup like the following path. This path can be adjusted to work with other apps and differe...

First you should really backup the whole drive. Because unreadable sectors mean that the drive will fail soon: ( "Add. Sense: Unrecover...

1. ddrescue the broken disk to a new, completely empty disc. At least zero the former raid superblock... ( ddrescue -n faileddev newdev logf...

Unfortunately the packages from the repository no longer support transcoding recently. You have to build your own package . sudo apt-get ins...