Musings on Technology
I’ve had quite a number of performance-related issues with Micron 1100 Series M.2 SATA SSDs in various constellations over the last 18 months. Turns out a firmware update to a rather “secret” version fixes that.
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I recently had the “pleasure” of helping a friend with his GNU/Linux box which was acting up. Turns out he had infected his machine with the Linux/CoinMiner.BC malware, probably by installing an unofficial Kodi plugin.
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Why everybody should you care about data safety, and how ZFS and BTRFS can help protect the data on your Linux systems.
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Since I am now in the business of photography and image processing (see my travel photography blog here), I thought
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Back in December a Linux Mint user sent a strange bug report to the darktable mailing list. Apparently the GNU C Compiler (GCC) on his system exited with an unexpected error message, breaking the build process.
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In 1999 “Boson, our attempt to make a Real Time Strategy game (RTS) for the KDE project” was announced on the kde-announce mailing list. You don’t remember KDE having a full 3D RTS? Here’s why.
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Taking pictures of lightning is hard. Usually one would take many shots with an exposure time of several seconds, and then sift through all the pictures. I didn’t feel like doing that.
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I’m using a number of Nautilus scripts for media production, e.g. to easily convert files to JPEG or MP3 format with pre-defined settings. Nautilus doesn’t parallelize script execution, but it’s not so hard to create a script which does.
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Now that Ubuntu phones and tablets are gone, I would like to offer my thoughts on why I personally think the project failed and what one may learn from it.
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If you couldn’t find anything interesting in the 54 Google Summer of Code ideas by the KDE project, here’s some more.
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