New category, thinking of blogging in english
I added a new category today, GNU/Linux. There I'll post stuff related to OSS and GNU/Linux, Gentoo especially. I'm doing some thinking whether to blog in english or not. The reason is simple:...
View Articlesendxmpp
Nice application for sending all kinds of text (ie. cron outputs and warnings on machines you administer) directly to your JID or even chatroom! Example: [code]cat SOMETHING | sendxmpp -u SRC-USERNAME...
View ArticleGentoo in comparison
Windows: A car with everything welded shut and you can only buy MS Gasoline and MS Oil. Other Linux Distros: You can run any brand of Gas or Oil but your parts all come from the same company. You can...
View ArticleFun with archaic machines
My PentiumII sidekick-machine, avatar, was supposed to receive a CPU upgrade today with a Celeron 633 MHz CPU, but alas, PCB revision which supports CPUs faster than 400 MHz must be at least v2.0 and...
View ArticleLinux newbies
How to spot a Linux user who (recently) switched from Windows? When something goes wrong, he reinstalls the whole system.
View ArticleDVD ripping under GNU/Linux
First identify the part of the dvd containing the video: -Most of the time this is dvd://1 -If not try try dvd://2, dvd://3 etc. -The command would be mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/hd* -* is your...
View ArticlePostfix and virtual mailboxes
Solved a nasty configuration error on Postfix with only virtual users/domains where a domain was listed in $mydestination, causing mail received for that domain to be treated as local and for local...
View ArticleLinux 2.6.20
Oooooh, WHAT THE FUCK? Used the config file from 2.6.17, did a "make oldconfig", answered to 20-sh questions (about new stuff), only to find out that it panics because it can't find root FS..!? Hmm,...
View ArticleUbuntu 7.04: first thoughts
So, I am about to replace the Linux distro on my desktops, on my laptop and desktop machine, so I'm considering my choices... Debian-based is the way to go, so it's either Debian or Ubuntu. I wouldn't...
View ArticleApt pinning: installing unstable packages on stable Debian
Minimal sources.list configuration. /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb...
View ArticleNice webserver uptime
Just checked: imp@extweb:~> uptime 2:34pm up 674 days 3:03, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.11, 0.09
View Articlehtmldoc
htmldoc --size a4 --linkstyle plain --webpage --no-jpeg --tocheader ... --tocfooter ... --top 0 --bottom 20 --right 20 --left 20 -f book.pdf *.html
View Articlebackports as default, stable as fallback
Add to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free Add to /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: release a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 750 Package: *...
View ArticleDeluge Torrent and Etch Backports
Simply wonderful. I don't have to get it from testing and "break" my stable box with mixed trees!
View ArticleRemove comments and empty lines sed one-liner
sed -e 's/#.*//' -e 's/[ ^I]*$//' -e '/^$/ d' ...so I don't have to think of it again.
View ArticleSoX, yeah!
ls -1 *.wav | while read FILE; do sox "$FILE" -r 22050 "NOVO/$FILE" compand 0.001,0.15 -28,-inf,-24,-24 -0.3 0 0 resample -qs; done
View ArticleI’m just an old chunk of coal, but I’m gonna be a diamond some day
A good ol' from Ubuntu *and* Debian bugs: Dimitrios Symeonidis wrote on 2008-10-14: (permalink) this bug will soon celebrate it's 3rd birthday. it's marked as confirmed, high importance, and reported...
View ArticleLimiting apt-get download speed
create file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/76download with content: Acquire { Queue-mode "access"; http { Dl-Limit "25"; }; }; That limits apt-get to 25KB/s
View ArticleDebian: online network interfaces reconfiguration with fallback to previous...
While inside screen: /etc/init.d/networking stop; sleep 5; /etc/init.d/networking start; sleep 30; cp interfaces.old interfaces; /etc/init.d/networking stop; sleep 5; /etc/init.d/networking start
View Article
