If the PC is working and stable, tweak it. At the moment I am playing with LVM – logical volumes. That way I can resize my partitions the way I need them on the fly. If you want to do something advanced, move the root partition on a lvm volume. It works, if you do it right. A […]
There’s a new Filesystem in town: BTRFS
On the 12th of July Chris Mason mailed to the lkml.org mailinglist introducing his new project, a filesystem for a Datacenter, called BTRFS. Although we are not talking about a final version, the technical specifications are looking great. If you want to have a look at the current status, feel free to check out the downloads. Chris Mason […]
No more comment spam
Finally – Blogging as it should be: I am spam free since I changed some basic things on my blog. Even the akismet queue is empty! For everybody else out there fighting with the same problem, here is a small howto on how I managed to get things smooth: Please, do not expect a solution for all of […]
Spamassassin for Webpages?
I think I should look for another hobby as having bad ideas and trying them out can be quite time intensive. But here is an idea I put to code lately. What is the best spam killer for free? Spamassassin. Can’t we abuse it for spam checking on webpages? Let’s find out.
Vista impressions
It was time for me to have a look at Vista, as it is already set free and seen in the wild on new PCs. So I installed it on my workstation to see what this new miracle can do. The install went smooth and there were not many undetected devices left to worry about. I was able […]
A masquerade at the LAN
Today I would like to tell you some things on masquerading, an effective way for granting internet access to your internal network by setting up a gateway. Any host in your internal network – let’s call it LAN (Local Area Network) – sends its packets to the gateway if it wants to connect to the world outside of […]