Windows often includes moving the mouse for hours, which I personally dislike. So here is a collection of shortcuts used from CLI (cmd.exe) or Startmenu -> Execute:
Category: IT Related stuff
That’s where logic ends
ORDB.org strikes back
I guess you know the ordb.org blacklisting service for mails – but did you know that it was taken offline long time ago? It did not report spammers since that time, but nevertheless many mailservers are still querying it – so the operators were forced to do something against that.
Copy On Write?
While browsing my documents for BTRFS stuff, which was recomended by Rei, I came across a funny term named ‘Copy on Write’. I guess, you’re already shaking your head, asking yourself what the heck I would copy on write – but be sure, I know what I am talking about. We are talking about memory management on modern […]
mplayer and internet radio streams
mplayer is one of the media players, you can use for everything on linux. There are nearly no formats you cannot decode. Regarding internet radio, I like this player as it works without bells and whilstles straight from the console. For tuning in a stream, you could use the following comand: mplayer -cache 1024 <stream-url>
Syslog NG and permissions
Syslog NG and permissions are a topic on its own – especially if you like to keep your system safe. Imagine, you run a process to parse your syslog files, which you do not want to run as root. Sounds easy? A first try might be using chmod and chown for adjusting the permissions, but the problem we’re […]
Kernel Update
Just for the records: The downtime we have experienced was just a reboot for booting a new kernel to be up to date again