Author Archives: Stefan Rubner

Dringend benötigte Management-Seminare

Eine sicherlich unvollständige Liste der Seminare, die jeder “Manager” doch bitte danke einmal besucht haben sollte: Die Kunst, E-Mails bis zum Ende zu lesen E-Mails verstehen: Einfacher als man denkt! Umgekehrte Proportionalität: Textmenge und Qualität des Inhalts von E-Mails Richtig … Continue reading

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All You Need Is 4 Chords

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What I Really Hate About Windows

I don’t run Windows regularly. I use Mac OS X. I use Ubuntu. I use Solaris. But when I need to run Windows it will never, ever fail to remind me why I don’t run Windows. It’s as simple as … Continue reading

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As If You Were In China

The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet user outside China to surf the web as if they were in China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported … Continue reading

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Gerade eingetroffen

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In Heavy Demand Right Now

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Workaround

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Duct Tapes n’Elbow Grease

This photo was taken with a $45 point-and-shoot, and it wasn’t by an astronaut sitting in a space shuttle! Two regular guys sent their cheapoid camera 27 miles up into the sky by attaching it to a balloon! Duct tapes … Continue reading

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Scan Magic With Scan Tailor

If you do a lot of newspaper scanning you know the problem: grey backgrounds, blurry pictures. No longer. Using Scan Tailor, a high quality scan is just six mouse clicks away. Scan Tailor is available for Windows and Linux – … Continue reading

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Belkin PlayMax Saves The Day

Today seems to be one of these days again. Just when I started working on some projects my wireless router died. LuckilyBelkin has sent me a PlayMax router just a couple of days ago so I decided to use that … Continue reading

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Building A 64-bit Resin On Solaris 10 Using SunStudio 12u1

This has been bothering me for quite some time. Resin is one of the best application servers I’ve come across. But to get the best performance out of it, you need to recompile it for your platform. While this is … Continue reading

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Steuer-Mann

Quelle: BZ 28.6.2010

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Porting For The Sun: The Zlib Problem (ld.so.1: exe: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_32:)

With the recent update of the Sun Studio 12 compiler set I started seeing errors like this when compiling for example MySQL from source: ld.so.1: exe: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_32: Turns out that it was Zlib 1.2.5 causing the problem.

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Bash: Dynamic Variables

Every once in a while I need to use dynamic variables in shell scripts for doing things like echo ${{$foo}_bar} but unfortunately it won’t work like shown in the example above. What will work however is this:

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Honey, Honey

Fresh honey. Not from the Maestro this time, but from our own bees instead. Delicious.

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WordPress 3.0: In the Update-Loop

After updating my WordPress installation to 3.0 I was stuck in the Update Loop. Every time I tried to access the admin interface WordPress would send me to the database update page where it then would say “No Update Required”. … Continue reading

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Schlimmer geht immer

Immer wenn ich denke, jetzt kann Werbung nicht mehr schrottiger werden, kommt ein neuer Held ums Eck und belehrt mich eines Besseren.

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Dnsmasq for ReadyNAS (Sparc & Intel)

Two things I’ve always missed on the ReadyNAS were a DNS server to serve my local network and a fully fledged DHCP server allowing me to assign IP addresses to my machines based on their MAC address. Dnsmasq can do … Continue reading

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Hard Typing Ahead

This camera module is known to be mounted upside-down in some notebooks. Applications that use the libv4l library should display the video correctly, as libv4l detects upside-down cameras and rotates the image automatically. See Hans de Goede’s post on the … Continue reading

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iSCSI Enterprise Target 1.4.20.1 for ReadyNAS (Sparc)

And yet another update: Took me some fixing of the sources but I finally was able to build a new release of the iSCSI Add-On for ReadyNAS. This release adds a lot of stability fixes of which mainly Solaris and … Continue reading

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