Because there is some information noise about the two bugs and their impact, I’ve tried to make an “executive summary” about the bug itself and the potential impact of it and the workarounds which will be rolled out for Windows and Linux kernels. Sources are mentioned after quotations. Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 Information disclosure vulnerability Allows access […]
This setting will shut down Acer Aspire One’s noisy fan when the CPU temp is low, and will only spin up if the CPU temperature rises above the default threshold of 60C Tested on AOA110, should work in 150 as well; Tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04 $ sudo -i # echo “options acerhdf kernelmode=1 […]
What the… ? Last sunday I got hit by an unexpected hard drive failure (are hard drive failures ever expected?). Good thing is I had most of the data backed up. The worst part is, it was the system drive, so the PC was effectively shut down. The drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, also […]