From time to time, my Thinkpad T460s starts without working WiFi. Like the WiFi card doesn’t exist. Since I was always in a rush, the easiest solution was to reboot …
Category: Hardware
Intel CPUs affected by Spectre & Meltdown
Intel® Core™ i3 processor (45nm and 32nm) Intel® Core™ i5 processor (45nm and 32nm) Intel® Core™ i7 processor (45nm and 32nm) Intel® Core™ M processor family (45nm and 32nm) 2nd …
Librem 5 – A Security and Privacy Focused Phone
The idea to build and use the phone OS which doesn’t rely on Apple or Google is quite old. Since the Ubuntu Edge project, there have been several attempts, but …
Dell server problem – Strike F1 key to continue, F2 for setup utility
The server which worked perfectly for years, after reboot decided to post the message: Strike F1 key to continue, F2 for setup utilityStrike F1 key to continue, F2 for setup …
fsck in CentOS 5.x howto
fsck is used to check and optionally repair one or more Linux file systems. File system can be a device name (e.g. /dev/sda2), a mount point (e.g. /, /usr,… ), …
Set date and time from command prompt
If the Linux server time and date is wrong and you need to set it to new values from the shell prompt, you should use date command. You must login …
SysBench on CentOS – HowTo
If you want to test server performance, you can think about SysBench. SysBench is a modular, cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark tool for evaluating OS parameters that are important for a …