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 = […]
Category: IT Related stuff
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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 […]
GnuPG vs glibc
After a glibc upgrade, I couldn’t merge gnupg again. The error messages pointed me to missing files and other strange things. A reason for me to fix it by myself – that’s what my local portage overlay is for.
Having fun with NetCat
As already told here (german), netcat is a pretty useful tool for nearly everything – even for doing backups. This time I want to take a deeper look at it.
Autodetecting swap space
Working with embedded systems brings a whole world to you and it might be that you have to adapt certain things to your current environment which might not be avaliable all the time like special devices or discs. In my case it was an optional card for a swap partition. How do you recognize it?