Easter has passed and we’re still alive. But have you watched the shops during the last weeks? Just right before easter, the pricing of decoration stuff and those chocolate bunnies are quite expensive and now there’s a huge drop as everything related to easter is pushed out. Sure – they made enough profit during the weeks before – […]
Author: ToeiRei
Spruch des Tages
“Dass der Touchscreen nicht funktioniert kann durchaus daran liegen, dass das hier vorliegende Ding keiner ist…”
A new job
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.
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 […]