Friday, March 16, 2018

Canik TP9SF TP40SF manual

As of today, it's impossible to find the manual online for a Canik TP9SF or TP40SF.  So I decided to scan mine and make it available to everyone here.

Enjoy.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nwjk510vn5gp8by/TP9SF.pdf?dl=0

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

OnePlus 5T - What's in the box?

dThe phone itself

One "Dash" charger and USB Type C cable

One smoke grey colored silicone rubber case

The pin used to open the SIM card drawer

Not much of a manual, just a quick-start guide

They'll try to upsell you a second Dash charger on checkout.  They got me on it, as I didn't check to see whether one was included.  It seemed like there would be a charger included, but not the Dash charger.  Wrong.  A Dash charger is included, so only buy it if you need a second quick charger.  Otherwise any USB Type C charger will work, but will charge slower.

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Intermittent Wi-Fi on Asus M50VM

Intermittent Wi-Fi on Asus M50VM

This machine has a Qualcomm Atheros AR928X which is apparently long in the support tooth.

Open a terminal and simply run:

echo "options ath9k nohwcrypt=1" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ath9kfix.conf > /dev/null

No idea what it does, but it works.  From:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/289898

unetbootin

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gezakovacs/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unetbootin

ttf-mscorefonts-installer failure to download

I have been receiving notifications about "failure to download extra data files" from update notifier. It asked me to download fonts in request from the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package. However, whenever I click on the "run this action now", a window pop up (see figure below) and it never got downloaded


wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb -P ~/Downloads

sudo apt install ~/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

SD card Canon exFAT format will not mount

exFAT SD Canon EOS card won't mount

sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

Redshift geoclue fix

Install from the Software Manager "Redshift-gtk".  This will automatically also install "Redshift" the command line package.

then add this to stop the failures:

sudo apt-get install geoclue-2.0