Today is Samhain, a celtic event. Sadly it gets more and more commercialized as Halloween and celebrated by noisy little children forgetting what Samhain or the All Hallows’ Day was. It’s now the beginning of the dark time of the year. I am lighting a candle today too. It will be a quiet day for me, not like […]
Author: ToeiRei
Nameserver Troubles
If your ISPs DNS server is slow like hell, online life can be a pain. The only solution to that is either a better dns server or some kind of local cache. A local cache you may ask? Well… there is a nice DNS Server out there, waiting to be used. The pdnsd is a nameserver keeping its […]
readcd at your service
Is this cd b0rked or is it just my dumbness? A simple CD can drive you mad, especially if it’s not fully readable. How do you check CDs? A simple search leads to readcd. # readcd -c2scan dev=/dev/cdrom Read speed: 4234 kB/s (CD 24x, DVD 3x). Write speed: 4234 kB/s (CD 24x, DVD 3x). Capacity: 353867 Blocks = […]
Networkmonitoring with ntop
As network traffic can be quite a pain if you do not know where it comes from, I took a look at the tool ntop. Ntop is a network analyzer, easily extendable and really userfriendly. Even with the default configuration it is able to deliver you useable statistics!
Killing Windows made easy
No, this is not a guide how to wreck someones computer nor a call to kill Windows… But for having troubles with Windows you might want to try that… at your own risk. Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start […]
5 things…
5 things I got, but which I do not want: some allergies expensive rent no time Windows on my notebook (although it’s booted almost one or two times a year) bad UMTS-connection where I would need a good link (Parents,…)