Somehow AOL doesn’t brighten up my day. In fact, making me angry would describe it way better. As I am using Linux, I am trying to avoid proprietary software – that’s why you won’t find me that often using Skype. The Instant messenger of my choice would be Jabber, but as my contacts don’t use it, I have […]
Tag: linux
OpenRC – Let’s try
There are many things happening in the Gentoo comunity right now. There even was a fine bugday killing problems out there beside a new init system showing up, promising to be gentoo’s future init: OpenRC.
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 […]
Kernel Update
Just for the records: The downtime we have experienced was just a reboot for booting a new kernel to be up to date again
Groupware Patchwork
Thinking back on my mail system here, I usually get that uncomfortable feeling in my stomach as the server structure was more or less some unordered patchwork which was started long time ago. Everything started back when I still used SuSE Linux, way before YaST2 when the world was still fine and sendmail a great choice for smtp […]