Browser Privacy Package: Disabling Flash Cookies, Google Analytics and Google Ads tracking

Flash cookies are a way to identify you even if you disabled your browsers identification and even all your cookies. Here's a guide how ...Read more »

Make your Firewall Safer with Knockd

Here's a nice howto . It describes how to install, configure and test knockd.Read more »

Linux Kernels 2.6.24 - 2.6.29 Benchmarked (Phoronix)

I've read the newest Phoronix benchmark of all kernels 2.6.24 through 2.6.29 and if you don't follow the link now, I'll spoil ...Read more »

Debugging Alsa HDA Audio

If you're using the snd-hda-intel module and you've got audio problems, you might want to try out manually using a specific model, t...Read more »

Automatic Backups on Linux (IBM)

Darn them. They just wrote the article I was planning to write and get famous with: Automatic backups over SSH with Keychain and Scp... well...Read more »

"Never use the second pass encoding again" - Using 'Constant Ratefactor' Instead of Average Bitrate in x264

Okay, I may not be able to completely fulfill that promise, but you will most likely be saved from the second pass and thus a lot of encodin...Read more »

How To: Comfortably Make your own WINE Bottles

If you're installing a few programs in WINE, you may notice that they tend to influence each other negatively. The fix is to install the...Read more »

Fixing XRANDR Caused High Latency with KDE4 - Display Flickering - Freezing Videos

If you're using KDE4 you might be disappointed by a bug that causes high latencies and or a flickering (second) display. Here's a re...Read more »

I'm a Linux

Check out these "Linux Ads": A cool French one: One from Novel: And what's your problem: By the way, you should also have a lo...Read more »

New Look

I've just changed to Layout. I thought the old one was a tad too boring for the KDE 4 era. :) Let me know if you like it in the comments...Read more »

Parted Magic - A great bootable Linux CD for exhaustive Partitioning and Backups

Parted Magic doesn't only come with a fresh graphical parted and partimage, Testdisk, ext3grep and support even for reiser4 and ntfs-3g...Read more »

Rescue Important Data with ddrescue

ddrecue is better than dd, dd_rescue or dd_rhelp if you want to (try to) backup what's possible from a broken (hard or compact) disc. I...Read more »

How the Linux Kernel Works

Tuxradar has a great article entitled " How the Linux Kernel Works ". Great for beginners!Read more »

How to Remove Grub from your Boot Sector(MBR) but keep the Partition Table

It's one really easy command, if you know what it is ;) sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/XXX bs=446 count=1 That helps you to remove any bo...Read more »

How To Add Knoppix to your USB Stick

If you've got a large USB stick, there's a high chance you will have some space left for installing a current Knoppix on it . That w...Read more »

Install Daily Fresh Ubuntu Directly over the Web

If you're doing a fresh installation and you don't have a CD downloaded yet, I can recommend the netboot installer . It let's yo...Read more »

Extensive List of Great Ubuntu Repositories

The I been to Ubuntu blog just posted a great and extensive list of excellent Ubuntu repositories . I especially recommend medibutu: (mplaye...Read more »

Saving date and time to hardware clock manually

If you change date and time in console, the hardware clock may not be updated instantly. There's a script usually find in many distros t...Read more »

What packages are installed in Debian/Ubuntu

Howtoforge has a nice article on how to install the packages you've installed on another computer . It's written for debian and ubun...Read more »

dbmail and database default character set

I migrated my mailserver to another server recently. I installed dbmail from scratch and restored my database into new mysql server. When I ...Read more »

Flashing your BIOS with a bootable CD

Here's a quick howto . I think it would probably be much easier if you'd just use a 2.88 MB floppy image which I think is supported ...Read more »

Against Intellectual Property

Being a Linux fan you might be interested in this book( free pdf download ) of two economists, which explains why they think intellectual pr...Read more »

Fixing Grub Boot Problems

If your system doesn't boot anymore, because grub was overwritten, you installed windows, or you installed a second hard driver, etc. ch...Read more »

Google and Privacy Part Two: Ad Privacy Settings

I've already written about the Google Ad Cookie Opt-Out . Now Google is introducing even more personal tracking of your private informat...Read more »

Automatically switch to connected External Display on Boot with XRandR

I bought a notebook to be flexible, but when at home I use it with external monitor, keyboard and mouse to be comfortable. Now the problem w...Read more »

Why we shouldn't trust Google

Danielweb explains quite well why there might be other priorities for Google than your privacy. I wish to add government policies to that l...Read more »

Fixing common Linux Problems

Techradar has a nice little introduction on the subject, covering grub, drivers, X graphics and lots more.Read more »

Testing the Development Kernel in Ubuntu

Testing the bleeding edge development kernel from Linus' git tree has never been easier. You can now download precompiled debian package...Read more »

Debugging a program whose user has no shell by the example of Mldonkey

When the mldonkey package in debian/ubuntu does not work properly you may very well end up without any error messages in all log files. When...Read more »