Yesterday, I wanted to install the recently released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7, because I run a Windows 7 in parallel to me beloved Linux, because I need it from times to times for my job. Unfortunally the installation failed shortly after the start dialogue with an unknown error message (error 0x800F0A12). This article tells you, how to fix it.
My HP Envy 14 has a great display that HP entitled radiance display. It features great brightness, brilliant color contrast and a reasonable resolution of 1600x900px for a 14″ display. Unfortunately, the display looks rather bluish. This post tells how to correct the colors with Linux.
In my last posting, I mentioned that my notebook eats by far more battery when running Linux / KDE than running Windows 7. Even though I identified (and fixed) that this was due to the switchable graphics (both cards were running and sucking power), I was eager to optimize the power consumption. After some research, I came up with the following solution.
Because I travel a lot for my job, I looked for a portable alternative to my DELL XPS M2010. As nice as the huge display was – the 20″ machine was just unsuited as cabin bagge or for mobile usage. Not even to talk of some very special examinations during the security checks on airports.
After very thorough research, my choice fell upon the HP Envy 14, which offers in my opinion the best compromise between portability, power and design. I bought it right away on the release day.
Webcams waren unter der Linux-Version des Adobe Flash-Players schon immer problematisch. Aber selbst jene, die funktionierten, hat ein Sicherheitsupdate des Flash-Players unter Umständen nutzlos gemacht. Doch folgender Workaround behebt das Problem.
