Posts Tagged Debian
Beware of over / under clocking
There is no question that over and under clocking could cause system instability that could lead either to loose of data or system hangs, so why write about this? Because system stability, as I found hard way, is also OS specific.
Common way to decrease system power usage is undervolting components so that way, even thought they do operate within same spec, they do use less power to do so. Less power equals to less heat being generated, so this also helps to decrease component temperature a bit.
Read the rest of this entry »WLAN hard blocked
Posted by LuGru in Uncategorized on 16/03/2017
For a long time I was happy with my Debian install, everything was working fine and as expected… that is until, recent, update.
After normal kernel update (to another iteration of 3.16 version), something around mid January / February 2017, I did noticed that after reboot my laptop don’t bring up WLAN adapter up and states, in GNOME menu under Wi-Fi, that device is “Hardware disabled”.
Issuing command like:
ifconfig wlan0 up
resulted in:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill Read the rest of this entry »
Nautilus restore type ahead select functionality
Posted by LuGru in Uncategorized on 05/09/2016
For me personally new “deep search” functionality (CTRL+F) introduced in Files (aka. nautilus) when typing inside window is most annoying “feature” to date.
I do use multi OS on daily basis, due to my work, and both Finder (OsX) and Explorer (Windows) do support type select functionality but apparently Nautilus is an exception. Read the rest of this entry »