Tag Archives: Software

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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Scan Magic With Scan Tailor

Posted on 2010-07-05 by Stefan Rubner

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

Posted on 2010-07-01 by Stefan Rubner

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

Posted on 2010-06-27 by Stefan Rubner

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

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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Dnsmasq for ReadyNAS (Sparc & Intel)

Posted on 2010-05-24 by Stefan Rubner

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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iSCSI Enterprise Target 1.4.20.1 for ReadyNAS (Sparc)

Posted on 2010-05-10 by Stefan Rubner

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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WebSVN 2.3.1 for ReadyNAS (Sparc & Intel)

Posted on 2010-05-09 by Stefan Rubner

Since I was already updating the SVN stuff for the ReadyNAS line I thought I might as well upgrade the WebSVN add-on. So here we go: ReadyNAS NV(+)/Duo/1100/X6: WebSVN_2.3.1-readynas-1.0.0.bin ReadyNAS Pro/NVX/2100/3200: WebSVN_2.3.1-readypro-1.0.0.bin

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Subversion 1.6.11 for ReadyNAS (Sparc & Intel)

Posted on 2010-05-08 by Stefan Rubner

Since I had some spare time I decided to upgrade my Subversion add-on for the ReadyNAS line. For a complete list of changes since the last version (1.6.6) see the official changelog. Downloads: For ReadyNAS NV(+)/Duo/1100/X6: subversion_1.6.11-readynas-1.0.0.bin For ReadyNAS Pro/NVX/2100/3200: … 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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Apache Patch: Pass environment variables to backends connected via mod_proxy_ajp

Posted on 2009-11-20 by Stefan Rubner

One popular method to connect Tomcat or JBoss to the Apache web server is using mod_proxy_ajp. This of course works very well except for the case where you want to pass some environment variables to the backends. This is especially … Continue reading →

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Code of the day

Posted on 2009-11-18 by Stefan Rubner

#if __APPLE__ && __MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5 int inxorcise(int nochdir __attribute__((unused)),               int noclose __attribute__((unused))) {     fprintf(stderr, "Apple does not want programs to use         daemon(3) and suggests using launchd(1).  We don’t … Continue reading →

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Varnish 2.0.5 released

Posted on 2009-11-09 by Stefan Rubner

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 …

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Bacula 3.0.3 for ReadyNAS NV/NV+/Duo/1100/X6

Posted on 2009-11-05 by Stefan Rubner

Just a few days after I released Bacula 3.0.2 for ReadyNAS it’s time for an update. With Bacula 3.0.3, the developers included another bunch of bug fixes and enhancements. Update on the ReadyNAS should pose no problems since I also … 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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It comes by night and sucks the essence from your computers

Posted on 2009-11-01 by Stefan Rubner

Today, after some intensive initial beta testing by Jan-Piet I decided to release Bacula 3.0.2 for ReadyNAS NV/NV+/Duo/1100/X6. For those of you who don’t know Bacula and what it does: The headline says it all. Or to quote the website: … Continue reading →

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ZFS on the Mac: The power to forge

Posted on 2009-10-25 by Stefan Rubner

Dustin Sallings writes: Then today, I read this: The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly. That made me very sad, so I decided to do something about it. And so he … Continue reading →

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iSCSI target 1.4.18 for ReadyNAS Duo/NV/NV+

Posted on 2009-10-13 by Stefan Rubner

Today I released the iSCSI Target Addon 1.4.18 for the Sparc based ReadyNAS series. There’s not only the dramatic change in the version number. In addition a lot of changes happened behind the scenes:

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Heute schon gemendelt?

Posted on 2009-10-13 by Stefan Rubner
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