Um zumindest eine Kiste optional zu machen, und die generelle Infrastruktur auf aktuelleren Stand zu bringen, wird das künftige DJ-/Workstation-Setup wie folgt aussehen: Workstation – Ryzen 7 3700X DJ/OBS/Streaming-System – ThinkPad P50 Mit der neuen Workstation wird das schon etwas ältliche ThinkPad T520p in den Vorruhestand geschickt, d.h. zum alternativen Webradio-DJing-System umgerüstet. Workstation: Die neue […]
Category: Linux
Things to do in 2021
A random collection of a bunch of things I want to do this year, ie. 2021 🙂
Master of the Home Office: Tools of Trade
As a matter of fact, I’ve been working from home for over 12 years by now. Thus, looking at all the panic and craze of the rest of the world with “we have to go into home office” kinda makes me both annoyed and amuzed: So you want to reinvent the wheel, kids? 😀 Before […]
System Statistics 2019
So, didnt do an update to this for quite some time (alas, AlltagsGrauen is offline, so .. no opportunity to do that anyway :D). Without further ado, the current system infrastructure I’m using these days (or am going to use in the near future): Current main system: Thinkpad T520, i5 2520M, 16 GB RAM, 512 […]
Linux & Notebooks: How to disable the touchpad
This is just a small reminder to myself – and others, who might run into the same issue. There are many solutions on how to permanently or even semi-permanently disable the touchpad, when eg. just using the trackpad on a ThinkPad, or more common: When having plugged in a mouse. There is this lovely program […]
GTK Youtube Viewer: Using totem instead of the default players
As a matter of fact, totem aka the GStreamer framework, happens to support playing videos from Youtube directly, as well as offering a slightly cranky search dialogue. Out of no reason VLC doesnt want to work together with GTK Youtube Viewer, mplayer is a major resource hog and SMplayer doesnt let me skip / seek […]
Ubuntu LTS 14.04: Fix Java 1.8 issues
Quick shot for fixing issues with missing Java 1.8: 1. Add PPAs Get yourself the right PPA – apparently JDK 1.8 is still not available for Ubuntu 14.04 (correct me if I’m wrong though), thus: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-fonville/ppa sudo apt-get update Source: https://askubuntu.com/a/613324 As I’m happily using Synaptic, the next line would […]