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 [...]
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 [...]
This comes from the I-have-to-pay-my-electrical-bill and from the learn-something-fun-about-your-system-everyday-department. As you know I’ve got Gentoo on my workstation. When I still lived in my dorm it was running 24/7 (last but not least to supply everyone with the latest episodes of popular shows). When I moved I started using a hacked-together suspend-to-ram script which worked [...]
Wie jeder RWTH-Student hab ich natürlich auch ein RWTH-Postfach. Und dazu noch eins als Mitarbeiter des RZ. Ist eigentlich eine ganz nette Sache, nur dass man die Dinger nirgends vorsortieren kann (aka procmail oder so) sondern nur mit sowas wie dem Thunderbird-Filter auf Anwenderseite. Heisst dann im Endeffekt auf bestimmt 5 Systemen die Regel anlegen [...]
So, this is not another in-depth review of the latest piece of technology on my desk. Sufficient to say my cellphone-contract expired and I had the chance to exchange my old one. You may remember that it was an o2 XDA Neo, which I blogged about back then. While this cellphone sure had a lot [...]
This is a small review for a small laptop. You might remember that I bought a MacBook a few months back, and may ask yourself why anyone would need two laptops (or even one for some people). Well, I can’t answer that question for everyone, but think about it the next time you buy an [...]
