Linux Tipps, Fixes & More

If Network Manager claims that Wifi is disabled by a hardware key, take these steps: Check if hardware keys disable the wifi (duh!) - this ...

After lots of trying to connect the bluetooth headset via bluetooth and pulseaudio to Linux, the following procedure has proved pretty succe...

You know the situation, when you report a bug in the kernel and then ideally you're asked to test a patch? This means you have to compil...

I have a netbook which still runs a very old system. It's ancient and no longer supported (just like Windows XP). But it's the last ...

I've been thinking about root server hosters recently and a friend pointed me towards Digital Ocean . And besides their good pricing and...

Here is a great very quick Ubuntu two factor authentication setup guide , which I'ved tested to work for Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04. It sets...

Here is a great very quick Ubuntu two factor authentication setup guide , which I'ved tested to work for Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04. It sets...

One important thing to note when using knockd with freetz is that only forwarded ports are possible. Only they arrive at the dsl interface. ...

All clients I saw were a bit too elaborate. So I wrote this one which only needs four lines and could do with less: #!/bin/bash targ...

This is a manual process, once step. You need to remove the file. Then it can be recreated. e. g. Valid eCryptfs headers not found in fi...

After switching from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 I've noticed my self compiled kernels would not boot well. There was always an error that a...

The bug was reported in detail here. The fix comes in two ways: 1. For just echo mem > /sys/power/state to work, use the kernel boot pa...

It's a bit troublesome, a better solution would probably be to create an XSLT file as an export filter from Impress to CSV. (A good sta...

If you get the error:  "(EE) GLX error: Can not get required symbols"  when trying to use the open source "radeon" drive...

I was really curious for a piece of working opencl software. Then I found out that a software I love actually also does opencl! The only iss...

In my setup (AMD A4), using opencl with darktable is about twice as fast as using the dual-core cpu.  It's not working out of the box...

To make life easier for the average user, Ubuntu installed a link at /sbin/mount.ntfs to ntfs-3g, thus automatically mounting all ntfs drive...

Sometimes you want to do some serious operations on ntfs volumes in Linux - and if it's only virus scanning. This can be slow. It will p...

If you want to install a package, which has a dependency you want to ignore, e.g. because it's wrong, outdated or unnecessary, you may u...

If you notice a broken cursor, which may means the cursor doesn't show up at all is a black square is a square mixed black and/or with p...