Category Archives: Helden der Technik

What I Really Hate About Windows

Posted on 2010-07-13 by Stefan Rubner

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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Workaround

Posted on 2010-07-07 by Stefan Rubner
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Bash: Dynamic Variables

Posted on 2010-06-24 by Stefan Rubner

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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Schlimmer geht immer

Posted on 2010-06-12 by Stefan Rubner

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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Hard Typing Ahead

Posted on 2010-05-14 by Stefan Rubner

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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Weltfrieden

Posted on 2010-04-21 by Stefan Rubner

Vorhin rief ‘ne Kundin an, ob ich Passwort weiß. Ich merke mir Passwörter eigentlich nie. Aber an weltfrieden konnte ich mich in der Tat erinnern. Wäre mir wohl ähnlich gegangen.

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Sonos Megafail

Posted on 2009-11-04 by Stefan Rubner

I’ve been a Sonos fan for some years now. No more. Two weeks ago I sent in my defective ZP100. Had to pay a service fee of € 103,08 to get it fixed or a replacement unit. Today the replacement … Continue reading →

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Give more threads to Varnish

Posted on 2009-11-04 by Stefan Rubner

When running my preferred proxy cache Varnish on Linux I realized that I couldn’t start enough threads on heavily accessed systems. As I found out, reducing the stack size is the key to get to the number I need. Oh … Continue reading →

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Nice Try

Posted on 2009-10-14 by Stefan Rubner

Unfortunately for the sender, though, I happen to know the tech support guy of said domain in person.

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New Toy

Posted on 2009-10-12 by Stefan Rubner
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Move it, move it (a.k.a. “Screw it up the IBM way”)

Posted on 2009-10-06 by Stefan Rubner

I work with web sites for a living. I give them a place to live, I trash them when they’re no longer needed and I also move them. And believe me, moving a site is the trickiest of the jobs. … Continue reading →

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Interesting searches: readynas uninstall togglessh

Posted on 2009-09-28 by Stefan Rubner

For reasons unknown to me, I get a lot of hits from searches for “readynas uninstall togglessh”. Obviously a lot of people who tried the ToggleSSH addon for their ReadyNAS found that it didn’t suit their needs and now want … Continue reading →

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Resolved: “ld: fatal: file values-Xa.o: open failed: No such file or directory” when compiling on (Open)Solaris

Posted on 2009-09-18 by Stefan Rubner

Ah well. Compiling software on Solaris could be really easy if it weren’t for the small problems all the time. Today I was faced with ld: fatal: file values-Xa.o: open failed: No such file or directory when trying to compile … Continue reading →

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CentOS5/RHEL5 fix for ImageMagick “cpio: MD5 sum error” and “cpio: read”

Posted on 2009-09-04 by Stefan Rubner

Back on CentOS 5 for a customer I stumbled across a little problem while installing RMagick for Ruby. Said interface between Ruby and the Image Magick tools requires Image Magick in a version greater then 6.3.5 to be installed on … Continue reading →

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Real Internet Gaming

Posted on 2009-09-01 by Stefan Rubner

An attack by a Chinese online game provider meant to cripple the servers of its rivals ballooned to cause an Internet outage in much of the country in May. [ More » ]

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Nistkasten Wolfgang S.

Posted on 2009-08-31 by Stefan Rubner

[ Thanks, jpmens ]

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We’re back

Posted on 2009-07-01 by Stefan Rubner

Thanks to some very strange procedures at my provider, the server was taken down on Sunday but it took them ’til now to realize that they actually did it and that they thus were indeed able to put it back … Continue reading →

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PEAR broken in PHP 5.2.10

Posted on 2009-06-25 by Stefan Rubner

While trying to upgrade a customers installation to PHP 5.2.10 I learned that hard way that PEAR is broken in this release. This isn’t specific to any OS as the bug reports show but rather seems to be a general … Continue reading →

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Yes, that’s why we use SVN

Posted on 2009-05-25 by Stefan Rubner

Why bother with descriptions? You can always go back some arbitrary number of versions.

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Shakes & Fidget

Posted on 2009-05-22 by Stefan Rubner

If you’re a bit into computer games and especially the RPGs, you’ll love Shakes & Fidget – even if the current online selection is somewhat crippled by recent actions of Activision Blizzard. Still: A must-read.

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