You often hear the phrase “the swiss knife of …”. Well, for networking, OpenSSH clearly deserves that title in my opinion. Besides the obvious feature of providing secure logins with different options for mutual authentication, it can also be used to transfer files. It is also a core component of software like git, which depend [...]
Just like the post on the Streulichtblende (sorry, german only) I thought I’d build my own Softbox before actually buying one (and the flash that goes with it ;). What’s a Softbox? Well, put simple it’s a device to distribute light/the flash evenly over a big surface, so that the resulting light and especially the [...]
This is just a reminder that Aachen Open, a German speedcubing competition, will take place again next year. More precisely on January 16/17, 2010. What’s even better is the huge number of registered participants and the new venue for the competition. Since the last place became quite crowded (and began to smell after about 2 [...]
Manchmal muss man, trotz eduroam, noch das alte Cisco-VPN benutzen um sich ins Uni-Netz einzuwählen. Z.B. wenn man von Zuhause auf Dinge wie Springerlink oder andere Online-Bibliotheken zugreifen will, oder um auf bestimmte Hosts per SSH zu kommen die (sinnvollerweise) von aussen nicht erreichbar sind.
In Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard kann man Cisco-Verbindungen glücklicherweise direkt [...]
When you start using a small and slow laptop over an unreliable GPRS connection (say while travelling in an ICE at 300km/h) you start noticing certain things that are missing from your current shell-setup. One of these problems manifests itself when you want to send the mail you just typed in mutt. Fortunately there is [...]
When using X on my Acer Aspire One (110L) and playing videos with mplayer, X would occasionally blank the screen after a few minutes without any way out but to suspend/resume to get your X back. This didn’t only happen with mplayer, and it didn’t have anything to do with xscreensaver.Anyway, after some digging I [...]
I just found this wallpaper I seem to have made in ‘06 (around August) and posted to the Gentoo Forums. It never went anywhere, but it would be a shame to let it go to waste, so here you go. Don’t ask for any higher resolutions though ;)
Download it in 800×600, 1024×768 or 1280×1024.
My weblog is littered with widespread tips about configuration for common shell tools and I post the occasional screenshot to flickr just to show off. I often get mails/comments regarding the used colorschemes and configs, so I thought it would be a good idea to create a separate page for these configs (and to keep [...]
I’m sure I could come up with 5 of these every day if I read the whole user-manual religilously and followed dozens of blogs, but I don’t, so here goes:
mutt supports threading (duh!) through
set sort=”threads”
set strict_threads=”yes”
But you want threads which have new mails appear at the top/bottom (whichever way you work):
set sort_browser=”reverse-date”
set sort_aux=”last-date-received”
Voila! Additionally it [...]
GitX 0.7 was just released today. This is the latest release since 0.6.3 and the first real feature release for some time, although we don’t make that distinction to strictly. After the jump I’ll outline the cool new features and how to make use of them.
GitX mailing-list
We’ve been using our Lighthouse tracker to respond to [...]
