My ThinkPad X131e boots slowly on openSUSE and Ubuntu but fast once login. Because it is also marketed as a Chromebook and my happy experience with ASUS Chromebox CN60, I decide to give Chromium OS a try.
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Author: Amigo
Remove Sites in Google Search Result
To remove fake posts and content, I use Personal Blocklist to prevent them displayed in the google search result. But it doesn’t function properly recently, websites in my block list are still being displayed. I follow the instruction in How to block a specific site from my search result to customize my search parameters to remove them.
ePub, Chinese Text, and Chinese Fonts in Kobo eReaders
Delete Your Salesforce Developer Org
I have applied a Salesforce Developer org to learn and test. But there is no easy way to reset to default configurations, it seems to delete the current and apply a new one is the easiest solution.
Use SeaTools to Double Check Your Seagate HDD Again If your NAS Report Any Issues
While setting up a new QNAP TAS-268 with my old Seagate Laptop SSHD, it displays a warning message. Open the S.M.A.R.T. information tab, there seems to be something wrong in End-to-End_Error item. It seems the hard drive is not reliable. But there is another story on What does end-to-end disk error mean?, it continuous working in the next 15 months.
After reading more stories about End-to-End error, I decide to use SeaTools which is a diagnostic tool from the original hard drive vendor. I believe it may read and analyze S.M.A.R.T. in Laptop SSHD more accurately than third-party tools.
SeaTools Download and Launch
I plan to use a notebook to check, therefore, I download SeaTools Bootable to create a bootable flash. A clean environment is usually a better choice than a dirty Windows.
SeaTools launches automatically after it loads a Linux kernel. You need to scroll down to the end or you cannot click on the “Accept” button to test.
Non-Destructive Test
I run following non-destructive test and all reports “100% Test PASS”. Therefore, I believe my Laptop SSHD is in healthy condition. It might be TAS-268 cannot interrupt or read its S.M.A.R.T. correctly.
- The S.M.A.R.T. Check
- Short Generic Test.
- Long Generic Test
My TAS-268 information:
- Firmware: 4.3.3.0628 (2018/07/25)
Unfortunately, I cannot disable the warning on TAS-268. I need to back up more regularly without the help of S.M.A.R.T..
Backup on TAS-268
To prevent data loss, I use an external hard drive to keep another copy. I cannot find Hybrid Backup Sync in the App Center on TAS-268 which is available in myTS-119PII.
But there is a Backup Station build-in, it’s very similar to Hybrid Backup Sync. I may use it to create a job to copy from TAS-268 to an external hard drive. I plug my USB 3 external hard drive to the only USB 3 port on the front panel.
To sync bi-direction, enable both “Delete extra files” and “Overwrite the file if the source file is newer or the file size is different” in the [Policy] tab of the job or only the new files are sent to the destination folder without removing files which are deleted on the source.
Copying a single huge file from external to TAS-268 is about 60MB/s while from TAS-268 to external is 80MB/s.
Reference
- Acronis: 9119: S.M.A.R.T. Attribute: End-to-End error
- AskUbuntu: What does end-to-end disk error mean?
- CNET: QNAP TS-119PII Spec
- QNAP: Backup Station Manual
- QNAP: Hybrid Backup Sync
- QNAP TAS-268
- Seagate Laptop SSHD Datasheet
- Seagate: SeaTools
- Seagate: SeaTools Bootable
- Seagate: SeaTools Bootable User Manual
- Wiki: S.M.A.R.T.
Linux Becomes Slow After Resume / Suspend
Recently, I built a new computer with ASRock J3455-ITX which has a Apollo Lake processor build-in to run Force.com IDE and VisualStudio Code. I have to use OpenSuSE Tumbleweed to replace my favorite Leap because it requires the latest kernel to support Apollo Lake.
Everything seems fine but it becomes very slow after resume / suspend. I have tested many power-related settings in UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) and none of them help. If I logout GNOME and login again, I regain my normal speed.
I try to google “linux slow after resume” and found some useful information. It seems related to
Doug Smythies and jat255 provide detail explain and a solution to restore CPU frequency as a service in Slowdown after resume from suspend on ArchLinux.
Salesforce Custom Buttons, Links, and Actions Tips
Here are some tips I experience while customize Buttons, Links, and Actions on Salesforce.com. I will put related tips/notes here.
