Arjan van de Ven Interview

As I mentioned in my last post, O'Reilly interviewed him and it's a quite interesting read. I only disagree on one point. He says ...Read more »

Registration Hell

I know this is an old hat: You have to register for everything. Then came OpenID to the rescue. Only that it's so complicated to actuall...Read more »

Bashrc Tipps

Here's a little article with some tips for making your daily shell life easier which at least I have not seen before. They include savi...Read more »

Quick Transcoding with Mencoder and Xvid

This little script helps you to quickly transcode any content mplayer accepts to an xvid avi file. It copies the audio track and encodes the...Read more »

Upgrade individual packages for Debian-based systems

If you are using Debian-based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, etc), you are probably familiar with the apt-get update followed by the apt-ge...Read more »

Iron - Chrome after Rehab

Some German developers put Google's Open Source Chrome browser into a rehab and removed most of it's spying functions . They call it...Read more »

OpenOffice Tips

LinuxPlanet has a nice article with some tips for efficient OpenOffice (Writer) usage. I always recommend continually saving with a new fil...Read more »

Syntax Highlighting in Nano

You can easily activate a pretty nice syntax highlighting in the small nano text editor, by putting these lines into your ~/.nanorc: include...Read more »

Mencoba Mozilla Prism

Pagi ini saya mencoba aplikasi Mozilla Prism (sebelumnya bernama WebRunner). Prism adalah aplikasi browser mini yang menjadi jembatan peng...Read more »

How to get the process start date and time

How can we determine when a running process was started? The venerable ps command deserves first consideration. Most Linux command-line use...Read more »

Chrome Developer's Channel

There's now a Chrome Developer's Channel available with automatically installed bleeding-edge versions of Chrome.Read more »

Ubuntu Restricted Extras

I just found out how easy it is to install all that good stuff to be able to listen to mp3s and everything: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-rest...Read more »

Multiseat Display Manager Out Now

The Multiseat Display Manager is now out and (hopefully) helps you to set up a multiseat environment (much) easier than before. I have alway...Read more »

Chrome on Linux Now Really Easy

CodeWeavers has ported Google Chrome to Linux using Wine. You can download packages here . Update: In my experience the package is not reall...Read more »

Don't try Multi Head Configurations with KDE 4.1

There are several issues up to KDE 4.1 in multiple display configurations, so I can not recommend using KDE 4 for that purpose (yet). See th...Read more »

Plasma Crash on Start Since Last Update

Since the last time I've updated my Ubuntu KDE 4.1.1 packages, plasma keeps crashing every single time I start KDE4. I think I'll tr...Read more »

Correct Ink Printer Usage

No matter if you use your printer under Linux or Windows, there's a couple things you should do to extend your printers life time and re...Read more »

Safely Reboot a Crashed Linux

You need to press Alt + Print , hold it and press R E I S U B (without the spaces). Now your kernel *should* sync and unmount the filesystem...Read more »

Sysctl for Network Perfomance

The short version: net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 15 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 1800 net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0 net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0 ne...Read more »

The Great Sysctl Mystery

Most advanced Linux users with know the sysctl interface for fine-tuning the Linux kernel. But there is probably noone on earth who really u...Read more »

The World in Danger

When the Large Hadron Collider was activated for the first today there was a very disconcerting picture leaked. Also check out this comic .Read more »

Git Bisecting the Linux Kernel to Find Bugs

You can help the Linux developers by testing out the current bleeding edge version of Linux by downloading the current version from git: git...Read more »

When Community does not Help: Ubuntu Maintainers keep their hands still about NetworkManager Memory Leak

There is a bug report about the current networkmanager memory leak at launchpad since March now. At that time the current Release was not e...Read more »

Latencytop Explained

I hope you all know what powertop is - at least if you own a Laptop with Linux on it - but I always had trouble with the wonderfully non-int...Read more »

Debian Packages the Easy Way

Ever wanted to create a debian package so your package manager knows about the program you installed from source and helps you with the clea...Read more »

Using IrDA on Linux

Using IrDA under Windows is quite simple. It just works. On Linux it took me literally hours to get it working. But you might get it working...Read more »

Memory Usage - Pidgin vs. Kopete

The GTalk outage gave me some time to run another test of pidgin vs. kopete in memory consumption. Pidgin used to always win this competitio...Read more »

Google Server Problem

Google wasn't especially known for server problems so far. But it seems recently there have been outages or slow service in Gmail and ot...Read more »

Google Chrome under Linux with WINE

It turns out the guys at WineHQ already figured out how to run Google Chrome within WINE . Heres a really easy quick guide for you: Get a cu...Read more »

Strip Mining of Open Source

Two people, one idea. Richard Hillesley from IT PRO also writes about companies who don't give back to the open source community , like ...Read more »

Power Save Script

I wrote a little powersave script that quickly executes a few commands to improve battery life, esp. on notebooks. You can put it in /etc/ac...Read more »

Reducing Power Consumption for Linux Laptop

Besides tuning your system with powertop, there are a lot of things you can do to minimize the power consumption of your Linux laptop in ord...Read more »

Second Thoughts on Google Chrome

The problems with Google Chrome are that it is not (yet) available for Linux spies what webpages you visit has a unique browser identifier c...Read more »

Open Source Donation Center

Reading a news update on Phoronix I had a nice idea: Why isn't there a place to make a spread donation to open source projects. You get ...Read more »

(Not) Giving Back to the Community

Open source software is not only a great chance for software projects to make better software. It is also a great Chance for the community a...Read more »

How to find and delete all hard links to a file

Deleting a file is deceptively simple. You can simply use the rm command like this. $ rm file1 However, if the file has one or more hard l...Read more »

Google Chrome is Out

Everybody's writing about it. I've got a direct download link for you, in case the people at Google keep taking it off just like tod...Read more »

Backup Partitions to a Bootable Partimage DVD

Looking for exactly that I found a nice quick little howto, which is written for Windows, but only uses Linux tools: http://ping.windowsdrea...Read more »