More of a note to myself...:

• Notebook: Schenker S403 (actually Clevo W840SU)
• Operating System: Ubuntu 13.10 (same in Ubuntu 12.10)
• Problem: Fn+F9 to increase display brightness (backlight) not working

Fixed by adding paramter "acpi_backlight=vendor" to kernel command line.

In fact, this was a bitch to track down.

References:

• 8086:0416 [Clevo W350ST] ( Read more... )

Very useful link: http://www.thelinuxblog.com/rotating-videos-in-linux/

To rotate portrait videos coming from the iPhone i use:

mencoder -ovc lavc -vf rotate=1 -oac mp3lame input.mov -o output.mpg

Doing some research I found this:
I need /dev/kmem to play kmem Russian roulette:

2 or more players do execute "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/kmem bs=1 count=1 seek=$RANDOM" successively. The one who crashes the computer has to make a beer run, brew coffee or whatever you like.
It's a funny game for geeks, but don't do that on production systems ;-)

Download from here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Install notes:
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins ( Read more... )

PulseAudio is a pretty cool sound server for Linux. Some stuff I like about it is ( Read more... )

I just upgraded Ubuntu on my Laptop to version 7.10 (gutsy gibbon). The install process took a while but was easy and convenient. Actually I just had to hit the "install" button in the update manager and over 1000 upgrad packages were downloaded and installed automatically - and it works ( Read more... )

One week ago the Playstation 3 was launched in Europe which sort of coincided with my birthday and so I thought, what the heck, I'll get one. March 23rd, 00:02 am I hit the order-button on amazon and the Playstation was delivered the next morning.

It has been sitting next to my stereo since. I didn't have any game or Blu-ray movie to really test it ( Read more... )

So today I got a new notebook... again. ;)

Since I decided to dump the second IBM for its noisy fan, I did a little research on replacements today. Guess what... I found the FSC Lifebook S7110 in a store two blocks away. What the heck, I thought, and bought it right away ( Read more... )

I'll try to catch up with a few entries. I haven't been writing real stuff for a while, because I always think I should post old news before writing the recent ones... thus, I don't post any of it.

I bought a new Laptop. Yes. A second one. And I returned the first one. The new laptop is also a IBM ThinkPad T60. I saw it at a store and thought it ( Read more... )

So here it is: My new ThinkPad T60 arrived today.

First Impression

The first impression was: Wow, this looks pretty cool. Hadn't cared about that anymore, when I bought it.

Second impression

Before I even started it up, I wanted to verify, what has been pretty vague on the net, the weight.... 2.6kg. Ouch! That's disappointing. :( Anyways, I ( Read more... )