KDE and the last login time
After the last KDE Update an annoying message popped up at login here, showing me my last login time. Pretty uncool if you want your system to do its stuff automatically without confirmation of such...
View ArticleNetwork too intelligent
Lately, working with Windows 7 I noticed a cruel transmission rate of 200 B/s while fetching a file from a local server over a highspeed connection. No, I didn’t have a typing error in there, it’s 200...
View ArticleStarvation
My mailserver got some nice features to fight spam. One of them is the well known filter SpamAssassin, being the last line of defense here.In theory, a nifty setup, if you kill quite some spam and...
View ArticleDesigned, engineered and assembled in the USA
August 2012 was a nice time as Google started to take over Motorola and things actually started to look pretty bright on the smartphone market as everyone was hoping for google taking action. For me it...
View ArticleSkype uses SQLite
Skype uses SQLite too! Even if you don’t believe it, but it’s one of the most handy things for getting data structured; But as every database, even sqlite needs some love every now and then.On a linux...
View ArticleZFS – closed due to overcrowding
As a fan of BTRFS, I love doing snapshots to keep things arranged during updates. FreeNAS offers ZFS which should do the same. Tested, works and good for backing up my Mac using TimeMachine. Things...
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Free as in …?
Vmware drives me crazy. Today I got aware of a ‘new’ Hypervisor, the ESXi 5.5 which should be the new and shiny stuff from vmware, dropping the 32 GB wRAM limit. But the first unpleasant surprise...
View ArticleAdventures with the RaspberryPi
Yes, I’ve been caught by the Raspberry Pi fever. A bit late, but caught for sure. It all started with a friend of mine handing me a box, saying “Guess you can make use of that way better than I could.”...
View Article/dev/shm not there?
Today a strange problem happened while installing Gentoo Linux. In fact, it was /dev/shm not existing. Quite disturbing if you rely on a stable build system and python. The latter one bails out because...
View ArticleGoogle-Authenticator and SSH
Looking at the current bugs and problems with passwords and authentification, everything is insecure – at least in theory. Believe me, as a sysadmin I have to say, “that sucks”. So I decided to choose...
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