VirtualTam's bookmarks

  1. "To celebrate the end of the 2017 calendar year, the Elastic Engineering team will be publishing a series of Elastic Stack tips each day, from the 1st of December through the 25th of December[0]. As we are a distributed organisation, and with community members from all corners of the globe, you'll be seeing these threads in a variety of our native languages.

    For some examples of what to expect, here is a selection of upcoming topics:

    • How to make an Elasticsearch Ingest Plugin (in Japanese)
    • Upgrade to 6.x with reindex API and tips (in Chinese)
    • ECE: From the trenches (in English)
    • Kibana tips for new users (in English)"
  2. +++: backlit keyboard, battery ++: HDPI matte screen, touchpad+trackpad -: BIOS messages in approximative English --: no ethernet port ---: cooling / fan noise

    ETH available through:

    • 10$ generic USB-C adapter
    • 25$ Lenovo USB-C adapter
    • 150$ Lenovo USB-C dock
    • 180$ Lenovo docking station

    Cooling / fan control:

    • triggered when the CPU reaches approx. 46° / 20% load
    • slowest speed: 3400 RPM (!), goes up to 4000+ RPM

    TODO:

    • try updating BIOS/UEFI
    • use a laptop cooling pad
    • killall -9 firefox # not really an option tho

    User-contributed feedback: