A new system

November 21, 2009; updated March 08, 2010

[ares] Linux 2.6.32-jen93-default sparc64 | 24x UltraSparc T1 (Niagara) | Load: 0.03 Tasks: 431 | MemUse: 1842/7922MB | DiskUse: 92/1833GB (output from hxtools's sysinfo tool) has a nice ring to it, in the midst of an x86-deluded world. (read more...)

Linux Kernel developed by hackers

October 18, 2009

If one looks at the authoring date of all commits, and sorts that by frequency per hour, you get these results: (read more...)

Package building on OpenSUSE with lbuild-jplus

September 08, 2009

lbuild-jplus is the name for a August 2009 package of Novell's “build” tool, plus changes from Ludwig Nussel, plus my changes, which add per-user configuration files, additional build environment defaults, and other fixes. (read more...)

Unreal Tournament Key Bindings

August 08, 2009

There seems to be a bug in UT99 v451 in that the voice menu, as triggered with the “V” key by default, just retracts even while you hold the key. To counter this you can define key bindings. (read more...)

Linux Intern 03/2009 Interview, ungekürzte Version

August 01, 2009

In der Zeitschrift liegt nur eine gekürzte Version vor. Als Ergänzung dazu hier der volle Text wie er ursprünglich von mir entsendet wurde. (read more...)

Simple bandwidth monitoring with iptables/xt_quota2

July 17, 2009

Add some iptables rules without a target: (read more...)

SourceForge now offers Git as SCM

February 19, 2009

Finally. (That’s all.) (read more...)

The woes with terminal emulators

February 14, 2009

Generally I use xterm because that is available on about every UNIX workstation, or where not, “derivates” (allow me to use this terminology even if it may not apply) like rxvt are available on, for example, MSYS (system around MinGW for Win32). However, I wanted to try something different, as xterms only seemed support bitmap fonts (I later found out that it can use freetype). (read more...)