It is time to drive again. I couldn’t resist – watch the temperatures!
Month: January 2007
“Bierstöckchen”
Heute Nacht wütete ein Fönsturm und brachte mir nebst Müll auch noch ein kleines Stöckchen von Sushiator angeweht. Worum es geht? – Bier. Weizen, Pils, Alt, Kölsch..? – Ein gutes Weizen in Ehren… Welches (Marke)? – Fohrenburger
vmware Player
Today I have rediscovered the vmware player for me. The idea itself is pretty old school, but always nice to have. The problem: Testing a livecd without a reboot to be able to continue working. A preconfigured VM does the trick as you just launch the player which will boot the iso. No CD wasted, no reboot – […]
Testing filesystems
I know – never touch a running system… but it’s fun still doin it. This time I am at testing filesystems for my system. But how should I do it? On my gentoo notebook, the portage is located on its own partition – not only due to fragmentation reasons. This partition does not contain files worth a backup. […]
WordPress vs FeedBurner
Bugs are those random developed features of software, letting it become alive and unsympathic. Bugs always hit you, where and when it really hurts. And so does a bug in WordPress – Everything started with a message at FeedBurner, that they cannot read my feed: Your server disconnected us before sending the full source feed content. If your […]
Which GCC version did I use?
Compiling can be magic somehow. Especially if you try to reconstruct strange behaviour of a special binary. The interesting question in that case is, which gcc version was used for a particiular binary. As GCC writes its version information, we can find it out with a simple command chain: strings -a /path/to/binary-file | grep “GCC:” | sort -u