The topic isn’t something new – to equip a computer with two graphic cards to make it save power. The idea bases on the fact that you don’t need high end graphical performance for your daily work and so a less powerful card is implemented aside of a big one to let the system decide on your needs. […]
A different kind of suicide
It is official by now that there are maniacs out there who already migrated their root-filesystem on BTRFS. So why not joining those freaks? Theoretically it shouldn’t be a big hassle: Boot a Live-CD, mount and backup the Linux partitions including their permission stuff to prevent breakage and dangle the Windows space in shape as you already have […]
Messing around with an eToken
Security is a very nice topic – especially if you are allowed to mess with them (or even break them). Today’s toy is an eToken by Aladdin. Looking at it, you might mistake it for an USB Stick, but nevertheless – let’s plug it in and see what ‘lsusb’ might tell:
aus dem tagebuch eines alten bikers 18
es hilft ja nix, aber irgendwann muß auch mal der hartgesottenste biker wohl oder übel shoppen gehen. der mensch, und als solchen sehe ich nun mal auch biker, lebt nicht nur von benzin und asphalt alleine und egal wie sicher und edel die kluft auch sein mag, aber hin und wieder steht einem doch der sinn nach was […]
Online-Backup
Backup is always one of those beloved topics of system administration as nobody cares, but cries on data loss. This posting shouldn’t rate a method of backup – it should just introduce online backup as a way of doing things.
Filling the gaps
My blacklist service runs fine by now and I have checked the results on a regular base. Fact is, that there are some IP ranges delivering quite much spam – so I decided to blacklist the ‘gaps’ in between the addresses as it is to suspect that those IPs might also get active. To recognize those ranges, the […]