As you might have noticed I tend to shoot a lot of photos (and recently the occasional video) on events such as parties and birthdays. Being a Linux user, and a strong believer in straight-out-of-camera shots, I tend to shy away from individual post-processing for my shots. I might crop the occasional shot, especially when [...]
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. This wisdom is only partially true for most modern devices, thanks to firmware updates. I’ve briefly mentioned having used a “hacked” firmware for the past few months. This weekend, contemplating whether and when to buy a new camera body, I decided to see if there have been [...]
Careful readers should have noticed that I talked about having finished my Computer Science studies recently. Now, there are several steps to the process. First you simply hand in your diploma thesis, meaning that you’re done working on it. At some point, if you need it, you can get a slip which confirms that you [...]
Up until recently I thought of quickly cracking a WEP-enabled wireless as complicated. I was under the impression that not only special wireless NICs were needed to perform the necessary attack, but furthermore some time, a lot of luck and extensive knowledge of the necessary tools were absolutely necessary. I had seen videos of someone [...]
It’s a good thing I waited a few days before releasing my next ALIX-post. I was gonna talk about the leds-alix module and where to download it, but in the meantime 2.6.35 was released and already contains all the necessary code. So, besides this post there is a new config: Linux 2.6.35 vanilla for ALIX [...]
I desperately needed a new toy, and found the perfect match with the ALIX 2D13 board from Swiss manufacturer PCEngines. I’ve had good experiences with the WRAP-board more than four years ago, so I knew about the quality of their products. This post should serve as a quick introduction and point out some caveats if [...]
This is a post about some things you might have used a graphical tool for in the past, but which can be done just as well using command-line tools. Since I keep finding these little gems I hope I can continue this kind of post in the future. I’ll try to categorize the tips and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
