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Installing Windows 10 / BootCamp on A1312 / Mid-2011 iMac

Here are the relevant hints: Installing Windows 10 on iMac 2011 and Fixing No Audio Issue: https://youtu.be/6foOrPapEFg Link to gpt disk / gdisk: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ Fix MacBook Pro 2011 Windows 10 64 Bit No Sound: https://youtu.be/LbmLVOUpVOA Used forum article: https://egpu.io/forums/pc-setup/fix-dsdt-override-to-correct-error-12/ Bonus Info: If you want to always enter the bootmenu, set sudo nvram manufacturing-enter-picker=true Bonus Info: …

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Ubuntu: disable automatic screen blanking

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-timeout 0 gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 0 gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver idle-activation-enabled false gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-brightness 100

DIY Surveillance Camera Recording

my crontab: # start recording on boot @reboot sleep 10; /usr/local/bin/startrecord.sh &> /dev/null # restart every 10 minutes to create a new file */10 * * * * killall ffmpeg ; sleep 5 ; /usr/local/bin/startrecord.sh &> /dev/null # purge old recordings 0 */6 * * * find /data/office-kamera -type f -mtime +12 -delete /usr/local/bin/startrecord.sh #!/bin/bash …

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Reducing SAMBA Server / smbd load when transferring large files

We have a 4 core Intel i3 machine running ubuntu set up in our office, responsible for two jobs: recording 5 security cameras to disk (ffmpeg) being a general purpose fileserver. The machine has a single, 3TB SATA disk and no RAID. The data on the machine doesn’t matter, and doesn’t need to be 100% …

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Windows Server 2019: Einmaligen Neustart planen

schtasks /create /tn „reboot for updates“ /tr „shutdown /r /t 0“ /sc once /st 21:59:00 /sd 21.02.2020 /ru „System“ …oder ohne Angabe des Tages, einfach „heute“: schtasks /create /tn „reboot for updates“ /tr „shutdown /r /t 0“ /sc once /st 21:59:00 /ru „System“

How to remove all backups in Plesk for Linux

If you ever find yourself confronted with a Plesk system that is running out of disk space, and you just want to get rid off all the misconfigured „keep forever“ backups, here’s how to remove them all from the command line: /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pmm-ras –get-dump-list | egrep „name=\“.*.xml“ | awk -F ‚“‚ ‚{ print $2 }‘ | …

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Xiaomi Robot Vacuum 4S2P DIY Battery Pack Repair

My Xiaomi Robot (V1) just sporadically shut down after around 20 Minutes of cleaning, stating „Error 14“. I looked it up, and Error 14 stands for battery malfunction. Since i own a lot of 18650 battery packs I’m able to build my own battery from old laptop battery 18650s, so I decided to upload the …

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gentoo/octane – A modern GNU/Linux system for the SGI Octane Workstation

It took about 6 months of work, and it’s done: gentoo/octane 1.0 has been released. Grab your copy here: gentoo-octane-v1.0-by-rephlex.tar.xz It’s basically a complete tarball of the system. So: attach scsi disk to any machine or netboot the octane using root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=a.b.c.d/path/to/filesystem (if you’re a tough guy) prepare the octanes local disks add tarball set …

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Preferred settings for Macs Fan Control on older iMacs that run hot and make funny noises

Yesterday I encountered a customers iMac which ran crazy hot on the backside. Macs Fan Control indicated that the PSU was running on 70°C and more, and something made a buzzing sound (like a wire dangling inside a fan, which was not the case). So I decided to set up the fans manually, the Mac …

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Fix IcedTea „cannot grant permissions to unsigned JARs“ error

In case you are a Linux user unsuccessfully trying to connect to your IPMI/LOM Console using IcedTea / OpenJDK 8 or newer, you will likely run into this error. You know, because if you’re a major hardware vendor selling expensive enterprise class servers, you don’t care about your IPMI hardware once you sold it. Here’s …

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