Month: November 2011
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I am going on a journey tonight – how to reach me over the phone?
Facebook friends can see my valid mobile phone number; my home and my office phone numbers stay the same, calls get forwarded “reasonably“. I will definitely return to Berlin on December, 23rd. I will return to Berlin for the weekend occasionally.
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Journal: end of the line for syslog? – The H Open Source: News and Features
Journal: end of the line for syslog? – The H Open Source: News and Features: Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers have developed a new logging system for Linux. The Journal daemon, which integrates with the service management daemon systemd, is intended as a replacement for syslog
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New user interface for Firefox on Android – The H Open Source: News and Features
New user interface for Firefox on Android – The H Open Source: News and Features: Tonight’s Nightly build of Firefox for Android will see the mobile browser gain a native user interface, replacing XUL. The change should make the browser load faster and reduce the amount of memory it requires
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Netfilter developers working on NAT for ip6tables – The H Open Source: News and Features
Netfilter developers working on NAT for ip6tables – The H Open Source: News and Features: Netfilter developer Patrick McHardy has released patches for the ip6tables IPv6 packet filter under Linux; the patches allow the software to replace the address information in IPv6 data packets
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rsync, ionice, iotop
c’t-Archiv, 23/2011, Seite 154: “Rsync zwingt Linux-Server in die Knie”. The above article (in German) is about using rsync together with ionice (like “nice” but for I/O load). You can watch your processes’ I/O load with iotop (like “top” but for I/O load).
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Adium offers 1.5rcX updates, but they keep crashing on start up and restarting
So I keep re-installing 1.4.4, which causes me no headache. Update 2011-12-24: Still the same problem (incompatibility with the Skype plugin) up until 1.5b8. Update 2012-02-01: Still the same problem (incompatibility with the Skype plugin) up until 1.5rc2.
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Unknown network event causing BIND 9 DNS server crashes – The H Security: News and Features
Unknown network event causing BIND 9 DNS server crashes – The H Security: News and Features
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Rails updates close XSS hole – The H Security: News and Features
Rails updates close XSS hole – The H Security: News and Features
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Google enhances WebP to take on PNG – The H Open Source: News and Features
Google enhances WebP to take on PNG – The H Open Source: News and Features
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Forget love, biological sex is a battlefield – Boing Boing
Forget love, biological sex is a battlefield – Boing Boing