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Updating Micron 1100 Series SSD firmware on Linux

16. January 201925. August 2022 sturmflut 15 Comments ffffff, Firmware, Micron, Micron Storage Executive, SSD

I’ve had quite a number of performance-related issues with Micron 1100 Series M.2 SATA SSDs in various constellations over the last 18 months. Turns out a firmware update to a rather “secret” version fixes that.

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English Linux Open Source Security 

A look a the Linux/CoinMiner.BC malware

4. September 2018 sturmflut 2 Comments CoinMiner, Cryptocurrency, Cryptominer, Malware

I recently had the “pleasure” of helping a friend with his GNU/Linux box which was acting up. Turns out he had infected his machine with the Linux/CoinMiner.BC malware, probably by installing an unofficial Kodi plugin.

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English Linux Technology 

Improving data safety on Linux systems using ZFS and BTRFS

17. July 20184. September 2018 sturmflut 5 Comments BTRFS, Data safety, RAID, ZFS

Why everybody should you care about data safety, and how ZFS and BTRFS can help protect the data on your Linux systems.

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Linux Open Source Photography Ubuntu 

Open Source Color Management is broken

24. February 201819. March 2018 sturmflut 9 Comments Color Management, colord, darktable, GNOME, KDE, X.Org, XFCE

Since I am now in the business of photography and image processing (see my travel photography blog here), I thought

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Linux Open Source Programming Ubuntu 

What a GNU C Compiler Bug looks like

14. January 20182. April 2019 sturmflut 0 Comments darktable, GCC, GCC 5.4.x, GNU, GNU C Compiler

Back in December a Linux Mint user sent a strange bug report to the darktable mailing list. Apparently the GNU C Compiler (GCC) on his system exited with an unexpected error message, breaking the build process.

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Games Linux Open Source 

Forgotten FOSS Games: Boson

29. December 201724. February 2018 sturmflut 3 Comments Boson, KDE, Qt

In 1999 “Boson, our attempt to make a Real Time Strategy game (RTS) for the KDE project” was announced on the kde-announce mailing list. You don’t remember KDE having a full 3D RTS? Here’s why.

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Linux Photography 

A cheap and automatic way to catch lightning

2. August 201724. February 2018 sturmflut 0 Comments ImageMagick, Lightning, Nikon D750

Taking pictures of lightning is hard. Usually one would take many shots with an exposure time of several seconds, and then sift through all the pictures. I didn’t feel like doing that.

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GNOME Linux 

How to parallelize Nautilus scripts

29. July 201724. February 2018 sturmflut 0 Comments Nautilus, Scripting

I’m using a number of Nautilus scripts for media production, e.g. to easily convert files to JPEG or MP3 format with pre-defined settings. Nautilus doesn’t parallelize script execution, but it’s not so hard to create a script which does.

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English Linux Open Source Technology Ubuntu 

My Ubuntu for mobile devices post mortem analysis

20. June 20172. April 2019 sturmflut 11 Comments bq, Meizu, Mir, Ubuntu Phone, Ubuntu Tablet, Ubuntu Touch, Unity 8

Now that Ubuntu phones and tablets are gone, I would like to offer my thoughts on why I personally think the project failed and what one may learn from it.

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Linux Open Source 

Google Summer of Code starts in four days, many open source project ideas still available

16. March 201721. June 2017 sturmflut 0 Comments Google Summer of Code, GSoC

If you couldn’t find anything interesting in the 54 Google Summer of Code ideas by the KDE project, here’s some more.

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