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...
View ArticleGoogle-Authenticator – Strike 2
Google Authenticator surely is a cute thing. But my current solution isn’t really matching my taste: one token for every app which makes up a total of 20 token for my daily use – about 19 token too...
View ArticlePHP Upgrade
Today I had to upgrade my PHP version to 5.5 as version 5.4 is getting older. So there will be some small problems with some services here as I have to adapt some of the code pieces used. Sorry for the...
View ArticleA short Hands-on: Microsoft Surface 3 Pro
I have to admit, I’m a proud owner of the MS Surface 3 Pro running an i7 under its hood. It’s my first Windows Tablet, so I do not have references to any of the previous devices. So I’m just giving my...
View ArticleA short Hands-on: OnePlus One
OnePlus does a phone, namend One – the new “Flagship Killer” in town, attacking with solid 32 or 64 GB of storage, 3 GB of RAM and a Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 801 Processor. Quite some power if you ask me,...
View ArticleReboot
This is a fresh start with a new and shiny WordPress Template, as the old one was pretty dark and dusty by now. Any comments? Opinions? Ideas?
View ArticleA short Hands-on: iPhone 6
Everybody around me was going crazy for the new iPhone 6. So I got the chance to get a closer look at one of those devices. Honestly, I am really appalled how cheap the device feels compared to the...
View ArticlePOODLE Security Vulnerability and IE6
The Facts:As a counter-method against the POODLE-Security Vulnerability it is recommended to disable SSLv3.Internet Explorer 6 cannot deal with TLSv1.For security reasons I did disable SSLv3 here...
View ArticleThat was my vacation
My holiday was pretty relaxing as long as you focus on the last weekend. Regarding the rest, I could need a vacation from my last one…
View Articleccache == more Speed?
Many people, especially around gentoo linux, do think that ccache is a must-have, reducing compile time pretty much. But is that really true? How much does it really help?Let’s nail it down with some...
View ArticleSense of Crisis
The OnePlus One is one of those nerdy phones being shipped with Cyanogenmod per default and an easy unlocking process. In other words, it’s the android hacker’s wet dream. But at the moment things do...
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