My old Acer TravelMate 800 got a new owner by now – but life is quite ironic, as I bought the scooter from her. Let’s see how things develop. To be honest, she doesn’t really have a clue of windows or linux. So why not starting with something useful?
Category: IT Related stuff
That’s where logic ends
Tux on the rocks
It is not a secret anymore that you are able to freeze your system and save its state to disc for resuming work later. Windows calls it hibernation and linux talks about suspend to disc – but it’s about the same thing. The big advantage of this technique is simple: loading times are cut down to a minimum […]
The battle about KDE4
KDE won’t get out of the internal news since the KDE4 series are the topic number one and everybody seems to dig it. Nobody wants to wait to have a look at the new desktop – even in the gentoo forums, there’s much noise in many threads. But here a word of warning: Even the developers do not […]
pfSense Update
Just as a small hint: The new pfSense 1.2-RC4 is out. That’s the download link: http://pfsense.org/mirror.php?section=updates
Rescue a broken tar archive
Recently I stumbled about some broken tar files I had to get data from. So I started to google for some ideas and came across a small and handy tool named cpio But how does it help? Well – here we go: cpio -F file.tar -i -v