Since some days I got a new job: I am working as a technical employee at Media-IMS. My job there is now taking care of slot machines and their owners.
Month: March 2008
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 […]
Hardwareupdate…
Wie bei allem, irgendwann wird es immer mal an der Zeit, ein Hardwareupdate durchzuführen. PC-User und Saftwareverwickler unter Euch ist das ja bekannt und somit ein alter Hut, für die anderen, naja, Schwamm drüber, man kann nicht alles haben im Leben… Naja, und so kam dann auch in meinem Leben der Tag der Tage, ein Firmwareupdate war mir […]
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