Yesterday, I had an opportunity to visit the German Climate Computing Centre (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum – DKRZ) here in Hamburg to learn more about their research and tour their data center. They recently installed a new supercomputer named HLRE-4 Levante, and it was very impressive. What surprised me most was how quiet a data center can […]
This is a follow-up to my previous post Configuring a Brother MFC-7460DN Laser Printer/Scanner on Fedora 23 (64-bit), as things have fortunately changed to the better in the meanwhile. As described in this post, setting up this printer in CUPS on Fedora has become quite an ordeal, as Brother no longer updates the printer drivers […]
How to enable mouse wheel emulation for trackballs in Wayland/GNOME3
Update: this solution does no longer work on later versions of Fedora that switched to Wayland instead of X.org by default. If you don’t want to switch back to X.org and you’re using the GNOME desktop environment, you can enable scroll wheel emulation as outlined here. I’ve been struggling with this for quite some time […]
Update: the MFC-7460DN printer is now supported via the brlaser open source printer driver by Peter De Wachter. See this post for a much simpler way to configure this printer on Fedora (and other Linux distributions). I’ve always been a fan of Brother, as their devices usually come with decent support for the Linux OS […]
Back in September, I attended the Kieler Linux Tage, to talk (in German) about how to manage storage on Linux using openATTIC. The presentation was recorded and the final result (in 4K) can now be viewed on YouTube. I hope you enjoy it!