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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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Tagged Helden der Technik, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Software, the ugly truth, windows
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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
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:
Posted in Bash, Helden der Technik, Linux, Software, Solaris
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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
Posted in Hardware, Helden der Technik, Linux, Multimedia
Tagged Hardware, Helden der Technik, Linux, Multimedia
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Varnish 2.0.5 released
As mentioned here, Varnish 2.0.5 has been released. Changes include performance improvements on Linux and reduced memory consumption when processing ESI. Going to test it on this site in a few …
Give more threads to Varnish
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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Tagged Helden der Technik, Linux, networking, Software
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Make your ReadyNAS the NTP time server of your network
Since it wasn’t that much work I decided to honor the request and build the server component of the NTP protocol suite for the ReadyNAS Duo/NV/NV+/1100/X6. There are two archives available: NTP-Server_4.2.0a-readynas-0.9.2.bin This is the standard version that would be … Continue reading
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Tagged Linux, networking, ReadyNAS, Software
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MySQL Tuning: The PHP Auto-Reconnect Patch
Now this would be really funny if it weren’t so sad in so many aspects: I know of more than one company running MySQL. Ok, no news there. But the MySQL servers of said companies are dropping connections. Not twice … Continue reading
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Tagged Helden der Technik, Linux, MySQL, networking, PHP, Software, the ugly truth
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CentOS5/RHEL5 fix for ImageMagick “cpio: MD5 sum error” and “cpio: read”
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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Speed up WordPress with memcache
We all love WordPress. But, honestly, it’s everything but fast. An easy way to speed it up a good deal is to make it use memcached for storing some of it’s data. And doing this is actually easier than one … Continue reading
VLC media player 1.0.0 – Goldeneye
The best video player for Linux, Mac and Windows finally made it to version 1.0.0 ;) Go grab it here. You’ll get:
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Tagged Home Entertainment, Linux, Mac, Multimedia, Software
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Bypass fsck on Linux startup
While re-installing the server hosting this site yesterday I ran into an interesting problem: The inital run of fsck on booting up the Linux image provided by my hoster would would report a file system inconsistency and wait for either … Continue reading
10 questions to ask before migrating to Linux
If you’re thinking about making the switch to Linux, Jack Wallen is all for it — but only if you approach the migration with your eyes open. He recommends that you evaluate a number of key issues before taking this … Continue reading
SCO just won’t die
They really don’t know when it’s time to quit. The Department of Justice’s Trustee program, which has finally had enough of SCO’s stalling tactics and failed reorganization attempts, has filed a motion to transition the company to Chapter 7. SCO … Continue reading
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Tagged Bigmouth, Linux, Software, the ugly truth
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Nagios forged: Icinga proposes to do better
Now it happened to Nagios: Users and parts of the original development team have formed a forge of the original code. The new project is named ICINGA (ugh, all caps) Icinga. Now, why the fork. That’s what the people behind … Continue reading
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Tagged Linux, monitoring, networking, Software, the ugly truth
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Mirrorbrain: A DIY-CDN-Framework
I really wonder how this has managed to slip my attention for so long. With MirrorBrain you can set up a distributed content delivery network. What it does is to redirect users according to GeoIP location detection to the server … Continue reading
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Tagged Linux, networking, Software, Technology, tuning
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Linux Sucks!
Well, yes. And Bryan Lunduke can tell you why Linux sucks. I don’t agree with everything but with a large part of his presentation. [ More >>> ]
ReadyNAS iSCSI: New Version from SVN fixes Windows client disconnect
The latest revision (r212) from SVN for the iSCSI Enterprise Target fixes a bug that could cause Windows clients to lose the connection to the iSCSI target. So I decided to upgrade the iSCSI Target for ReadyNAS right away. From … Continue reading
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ReadyNAS libc-client2001
As I already said, there’s a little problem when trying to update your ReadyNAS with software from the “Sarge” repository: There’s almost no copy of that left on the net. However, even if you find one (or use my “Sarge … Continue reading
ReadyNAS: New “Sarge” Repository
While playing with my old but trusty ReadyNAS NV I found that most if not all official Debian mirrors by now have deleted their archives of “Sarge”. No wonder, since that release is quite dated now. However, the operating system … Continue reading
