Tech entries - petermolnar.net
TEXT Simplifying music playback
I decided to throw complications away and use a tablet, and a tablet
alone via it’s headphone jack to the amplifier. Blasphemy, sacrilege -
no separate DAC, no dedicated streamer, no NAS, no nothing.
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TEXT How to block and confuse AI crawlers with nepenthes and fail2ban
A quick guide on combining an anti-AI tarpit with automatic blocking
TEXT The outdoor socket and the monster that is the Skoda Mode 2 cable
We got a new (to us) car because a truck liberated us from the one we
bought a year ago. Since this one is a plug-in hybrid, I wanted to
charge it from an outdoor socket using the official 3 pin cable.
Apparently it’s not this simple.
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TEXT FreeBSD "kiosk" for home automation dashboard
My current, FreeBSD based server for self-hosting and home automation -
now with a touchscreen!
TEXT How to change DPI when docking with XFCE and systemd
DPI change on docking with XFCE and systemd on Manjaro
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TEXT The quest for simple, high quality music and video playback in 2023
The year 2023 reminded me of my mortality quite a bit, so I took a good,
deep look at my home setups in case someone else ever needs to be able
to understand it, use it, maintain it. I decided to start with something
that we use day to day - music and video playing.
TEXT I ended up with a Zigbee smart home because the alternative was hurting my ears
I’ve been eyeing with FIR (far infrared) heating for years, long before
we got to buy our current house. Now we have it, and while it’s
certainly not a cheap way to heat, it feels lovely; getting here,
however, had some unforeseen problems.
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TEXT Old Web, New Web, Indie Web
If you have to decide on the order of creative freedom vs data
ownership, what order do you choose?
TEXT Mi az az XMPP, miért jó, és hogyan használd?
Az azonnali üzenetküldők egyre gyalázatosabbak a felhasználói érdekek és
adatvédelem terén, pedig jó ideje lenne lehetőség szabadon választani
szolgáltatót, programot/felületet, de akár még futtathatnánk is saját
rendszert.
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TEXT DIY smart wake up lamp with IKEA, Sonoff D1 Dimmer, and Domoticz
I made a smart wake up lamp, just to see if it is better, than a normal
alarm clock. It is an insane difference, waking up is so much nicer, and
subtle, than before, so I recommend doing one.
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TEXT Budget-friendly webcam upgrade: smartphone with DroidcamX over USB
I found a program, called Droidcam, that can turn any Android phone into
a surprisingly nice webcam over USB, and it works remarkably well even
on linux.
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TEXT Run your artisan instant messaging service for your friends & family
Fleeing Whatapp due to their policy changes? Tired of the never ending
roam between the actual trendy instant messaging app? Here is a simple,
elegant solution: run your own server, onboard your friends and family,
and live happily ever after.
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TEXT Ultra low budget photo wall
I made a photo wall on an extremely tight budget, and it doesn’t look
horrible at all.
TEXT Excavating my former homepages
Someone, a long time ago came up with the thought that whatever is put
on the internet, it’ll be there forever. Well, it’s wrong. The old
versions of my own website, including their design, were long gone, so I
decided to put the Indiana Jones hat on, and started digging.
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TEXT Refactoring my static generator
Some years ago I decided to walk away from dynamic website in pursuit of
something that feels a bit more, like the small web, and what’s more
fault tolerant for the future. Unfortunately my solution overgrew its
promise so it was time for some reaping.
TEXT Rethinking, downsizing, and revisiting the idea of a home server
Lately I’ve found myself spending way too much time and effort on my
home server while not solving any of the issues I uncovered. It was time
to take a step back.
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TEXT Raspberry Pi 3 as featherweight headless media renderer
After years of experimentation with modern media center software I gave
up. As usual, the simpler, the better, and cleaner, so welcome back MPD
and VLC, and welcome raspotify.
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TEXT Consistent USB device naming in a FreeNAS jail
How to make an Aeotec Z-Wave Z-Stick, a CC2531 Zigbee2MQTT, and an
RFLink work with a FreeNAS jail running Domoticz
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TEXT Rebuilding my home server on a tight budget
For many years I used my former ThinkPads as home servers - built in
battery, 3G modem, dead silent, sort of too good to be true as a server.
Unfortunately my storage needs started to outgrow the options, plus my
RAID0 ZFS decided to die within 2 days of the first alert.
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TEXT Gopher? Gopher.
Since last weekend, I’m serving my site over gopher as well. Yes, that
nearly forgotten 90s protocol. And it’s not even an april fools joke.
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TEXT A journey to the underworld that is RDF
I got into an argument on Twitter - it made me realize I don’t know
enough about RDF to argue about it. Afterwards I tried out a lot of
different ways to drew my own conclusions on RDF(a), microdata, JSON-LD,
vocabularies, schema.org, etc. In short: this one does not spark joy.
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TEXT How to add themes to your website with manual and CSS prefers-color-scheme support
prefers-color-scheme is a new CSS media query feature, which propagates
your OS level color preference. While it’s very nice, it’s way too new
to rely solely on it, so a manual fallback is needed.
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TEXT Domoticz vs sensors
Summary of my experience of adding sensors, and switches to Domoticz
through MQTT, and RFLink.
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TEXT GPS tracking without a server
My pipeline of tracking where I’ve been using and Android phone,
Backitude, python, and cron
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TEXT Lessons of running a (semi) static, Indieweb-friendly site for 2 years
It’s not possible to run fully static sites with dynamic features, such
as webmention handling - you can get close to it, but you do need to
embrace external services.
TEXT Do websites want to force us to use Reader Mode?
The great unreadability of 2018 made Text secondary to Hyper in
Hypertext Markup Language. Do publishers really want us to keep reading
everything in the Reader Mode of the browsers?
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TEXT Using I²C sensors on a linux via a USB and IIO
A short story of getting a tiny, cheap USB I²C adapter for a home
server, learning about the Industrial I/O linux subsystem, and
connecting it to collectd.
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TEXT Guide on how to make your website printable with CSS
CSS snippets to consider when you want to provide a printable version of
your blog
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TEXT We are living in instant messenger hell
I had to install WhatsApp, because some friends are refusing to
communicate in any other way, which made me realise how tired and
disillusioned I am when I have to face yet another instant messenger
network - at least, with some work, Pidgin can still connect to more or
less everything and anything.
TEXT How to install microG an odexed stock android ROM
The method of replacing Google Services Framework with microG suite on
the stock, Android Marshmallow ROM of a Nomu S10
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TEXT LinkedIn is ignoring user settings
Logged out users are prevented from reaching LinkedIn profiles set to
complete public visibility
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TEXT Living with a rugged, cheap Chinese Android phone, the Nomu S10
Cheap, good outdoor phone, with gigantic, but irreplaceable battery,
waterproof body, very loud speaker. Has no repair options, starts to
fall apart after a year of use, and might come with a virus
preinstalled.
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TEXT Content, bloat, privacy, archives
I spent a lot of time trying centralising my online activities,
including adding bookmarks and imports from social networks. Lately my
site looked bloated and unmaintainable. I started questioning what data
is my data, what data should or could I own - it was time to rethink
some ideas.
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TEXT Headless Spotify Debian linux server fine tunes
Fine tunes and extras for Vivek Panyam’s guide “How to build a headless
Spotify Streaming box”
TEXT Self-hosted home SMS gateway
How to set up Gammu on an old ThinkPad with a 3G modem and listen for
MQTT messages to send them as text messages in case your internet is
down but you still need to alert.
TEXT Re-Decentralize
TEXT Environmental sensor logging with Rasbperry Pi, Adafruit BME280 and SI1145, collectd, and mosquitto
How to collect, monitor, read, and store pressure, temperature,
humidity, visible, IR, and UV light data with a Raspberry Pi, an
Adafruit BME280, Adafruit SI1145, collectd stats collector, and
mosquitto MQTT.
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TEXT Bookmarks, favs, likes - backfilling years of gaps
What do you do when you have years of hoarded internet on your computer
and you want to put them into one place, to make it searchable? You put
them on your website, while retroactively like, favorite, and bookmark
them at their source.
TEXT A dirty fix for non-stop drifting Trackpoint
How to stop Trackpoint from constantly, slowly moving on it’s own under
linux
TEXT Logging Android sensor data with Automate
I’ve been searching for a long while for a sensor data logger app; it
turns out Automate can do this just fine with a lot of extra, so here’s
my solution for a Galaxy S4.
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TEXT ZFS NFS shares with avahi zeroconf
How to announce ZFS NFS shares on your home network for clients to
automatically discover them.
TEXT Fix the hard drive killer APM
How to spin down hard drive and get rid of the clicking noise in Debian
9 (Strecth) and Ubuntu 16.04 on a Thinkpad X250
TEXT Save files from Samsung Galaxy S4 with a dead screen with Debian or Ubuntu
How to download your files and safely destroy personal data from a
Samsung android phone with a dead screen using heimdall, TWRP, and adb.
TEXT Changing laptops: ThinkPad X200 vs X250, a story of a long postponed upgrade
Even though I only owned an X200 for 3 years, the laptop from 2009 was
becoming aged, no matter how many things I replaced on it, so sadly, it
was time to look for an alternative.
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TEXT Replacing Baïkal with Radicale
I was becoming unhappy with Baïkal, my contact and calendar sync server:
a growing number of clients was unable to use it, so I started to look
for alternatives. This time I wanted something plain text based.
TEXT How to get rid of 'FastCGI sent in stderr: Primary script unknown' in nginx logs
Add try_files $uri $script_name =404; to your PHP handling block. Click
more for details
TEXT Going static
The “why”s for writing one’s own static generator, which I want to
replace my WordPress with.
TEXT Hacking tint2 panel: weather, CPU temperature and volume executors
Adding weather, volume and CPU status a hacker friendly panel: tint2.
TEXT How to export Flickr to a GPX file to Geotag photos
Using Flickr to add GPS metadata to my photos.
TEXT How to send simple UTF-8 email in Python 3.x
Apparently, sending email in Python is painful. This is what I did to
ease it.
TEXT Delete stolen contacts in social networks
How to delete stolen contact lists - address books - from LinkedIn,
Facebook, and Twitter.
TEXT Automatically reading GPS information from featured image and adding as post meta in WordPress
Wordpress has a semi-official way of geotagging, so I decided to fill
this automatically from the featured image.
TEXT My home backup and minimal security system
I’ve recently experienced what is it like to have an “uninvited guest”
in your home while you’re away hiking - hint: it doesn’t feel good.
Since then I decided to finally put together the things I’ve been
postponing for months for various reasons - mostly for being lazy.
TEXT motionEyeOS mobile phone presence detection for auto on/off based on network IP or MAC address
I wanted my motionEyeOS system to turn on and off automatically if our
mobile phones are present on the home network.
TEXT Extending Press This in WordPress to support indieweb reply, like and repost
I’ve been able to reply/like/repost with my site for a long while, but
is wasn’t elegant, fast or slick at all; it was time to fix it.
TEXT The horror of chat logs
Can I has normalized, plain text chat logs, please? Starting from 2005,
from 7 different clients.
TEXT Why I still use email
How and why I keep using email.
TEXT Reducing Javascript on petermolnar.eu
Requiring JS to open a menu or to resize images to the viewport is not
cool.
TEXT Icon fonts should have meaningful unicode mappings to provide fallback
All the icons fonts could potentially have a relatively meaningful,
fallback Unicode character that would be shown in cases when the font
does not load for various reasons.
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TEXT Auto setting post format in my WordPress setup
WordPress with it’s custom taxonomy engine has the Post Format option,
but it would be much better to do this automatically, wouldn’t it? If me
as a human can tell the which post is what I just need to translate the
logic to PHP.
TEXT Getting DKIM, DMARC and SPF to work with Postfix, OpenDKIM and OpenDMARC
There are plenty of tutorials out there how to get DKIM, SPF, and DMARC
working, but it still took me a couple of hours to get everything right,
because each and every one of them lacks something to actually work.
TEXT Spotify: how good is high quality streaming?
Is there an actual difference between high and normal quality streaming
on Spotify? How does Spotify high quality streaming compare to CD
quality?
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TEXT Formatted vs unformatted size of filesystems on linux: ext3, ext4, xfs, zfs and reiserfs
A small comparison of formatted space differences between ext3, ext4,
xfs, zfs, btrfs, ntfs and reiserfs.
TEXT Why your AC wifi can't reach full speed on 3.13 kernel (Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17, elementaryOS)
Less-known depths of wireless: regulations by countries and non-existent
updates for linux.
TEXT Disable right click blocking in Firefox or Pale Moon
Blocked right clicks are annoying.
TEXT How to build an EXIF database to understand your photography
Some bits of code to get stats from the EXIF data from your photos.
TEXT Add avatar for not comment type comments in WordPress
By default only comment type comments get avatars.
TEXT How to make WordPress secure with nginx and fail2ban
WPScan with Metasploit can easily hack a WordPress site - unless you
automatically block their access to the PHP level.
TEXT How block access to original JPG files on WordPress with nginx
Block access to non-resized JPG files. Use it with caution.
TEXT Hidden and less hidden RSS feeds on some major social networks
Examples for RSS feed options of some social sites.
TEXT Reject mails in postfix based on sender domain
Some bash lines to generate sender checks for postfix.
TEXT Disable Jetpack subscriptions CSS (3.2+)
Quickfix for annoying additional CSS from Jetpack.
TEXT How to disable SSLv3 in Firefox to avoid POODLE attack
Disable SSLv3 in Firefox.
TEXT Lightweight, secure, database-free, spamfiltering mail server with Postfix, Dovecot, openDKIM and dspam on Debian 7
Configurations for a light memory use, spamfiltering, secure mailserver
on linux.
TEXT How I misunderstood an aspect of Indieweb
If the indieweb sites were not syndicating to Twitter, would it be
possible to collect the posts based on hashtags with - for example -
Google?
TEXT Monitor specific website with Monit
How to: monitor the health of a remote web address with Monit.
TEXT What is an old(ish) Android phone / tablet good for?
Old(ish) Android device? Upgrade it, use it as webcam, SMS gw, backup
server… there’s no need to throw it away.
TEXT WordPress + InnoDB screams for FOREIGN keys
No more orphaned data in WordPress if you add FOREIGN keys to your
InnoDB database.
TEXT Trimming the fat: THA Big Bad Cleanup of my WordPress
THA Big Bad Cleanup of my WordPress: from importing tweets & statuses to
posting in Markdown.
TEXT WordPress - insert image as Markdown Extra
WordPress + Markdown are not there yet, hacks needed.
TEXT Alternative for Google Apps on Android - living without Google on Android
Android without any Google App? What to use instead of Hangouts, Map,
Gmail? Is that even possible? And why would anyone want to live without
Google?
TEXT How to block LG smart TVs from phoning home on OpenWRT
TEXT Indieweb - decentralize the web while centralizing ourselves
Pull your content together from the shards: decentralize the social
networks and centralize ourselves!
TEXT Speeding up WordPress from the backend
Backend ( PHP, MySQL, nginx ) tricks & tips to speed up a WordPress
setup.
TEXT Optimize your site experience and your image gallery for any device
What is the best approach to show images on smartphones & tablets? To
swipe or not to swipe? How about fluid videos?
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TEXT moving a site to standalone from a WordPress Network
Converting a blog from a WordPress Network to standalone is painful.
TEXT WP-FFPC: speed test
WP-FFPC - speeding up your WordPress site at leas 9 times.
TEXT WordPress Jetpack: deactivate any module
How to disable any module of JetPack for WordPress.
TEXT Character count for WordPress content and excerpt fields
How to add a simple character counter to excerpt & content fields in
WordPress.
TEXT logging nginx to rsyslog
log nginx to rsyslog without blocking
TEXT Setting up LXC containers with Debian 7 Wheezy from scratch
LXC - container based virtualisation from scratch on Debian Wheezy - a
slightly messy guide to start with
TEXT Monitor disk health with HDSentinel and collectd
A little shell script to connect HDSentinel to collectd.
TEXT fail2ban for NAT hosts
Centralised fail2ban for NAT firewall
TEXT Ramdisk in Debian Wheezy - a.k.a tmpfs
Use tmpfs instead of /dev/ramX in Debian Wheezy for ram based space.
TEXT Monit web status to JSON with PHP
Show monit status in JSON for other software to understand.
TEXT Adaptive, responsive, pure CSS3, bandwith-saving image gallery for WordPress
Image gallery for any device, for modern browsers, with nearly pure
CSS3.
TEXT elementaryOS: customize date & time in wingpanel
Quick hack for elementaryOS time display: use custom format.
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TEXT Lightweight resource monitoring with collectd and jarmon
The neverending story if using less and less resource for a process
continues: replacing Munin with collectd for system resource memories.
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TEXT How to compile Percona Server with XtraDB 5.5 for ARM ( armhf )
To make Percona run on armhf architecture there are only small changes
need to be applied.
TEXT Add RAM to Ubuntu 12.04+ for free: zRAM
More RAM for free? By installing a software?! Enter zRAM.
TEXT Upstart script for Dropbear SSH server
A very sleak upstart job script for dropbear.
TEXT Reposition elementaryOS dock (Plank)
How to move elementaryOS Luna Plank to different position.
TEXT Solution for: Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
How to fix Gtk fatal error of PNG images.
TEXT My nginx version update script
Ever wanted a quick update on your SPDY patched nginx? This is what I
use.
TEXT trick to "change" CD for wine
Need to install something with more than one install CD-s to wine?
Here’s how.
TEXT Conquer your EXT partition
How to get “free” space on EXT filesystem without deleting anything?
TEXT How to move dalvik-cache to /system partition in Android
Move the dalvik-cache from data partition to system on rooted, S-OFF
android devices.
TEXT String interchange between C# to and ANSI C DLL
How to send and receive a string between C# and C.
TEXT How to make Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) usable
Tweaks after install in order to achieve the usability of Linux Mint 10.
But the new mascot is pretty cute.
TEXT HTC Desire (Bravo): ROMs, updates, pain and suffering
Replacing the ROM of a HTC Desire; notes for myself if I’d ever want to
do this again.
TEXT Testing WordPress: the importance of PHP opcode cache
Testing the limits of an nginx and PHP-FPM based WordPress Network with
and without PHP APC opcode cache running on a really small KVM VPS.
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TEXT How to disable "Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration"
After upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 boot hangs for more than one
minute, waiting for network. Here’s how to solve it the correct way.
TEXT conky with ical
Make conky display ical calendars from the web with the help of
calcurse.
TEXT reduced functionality switch - case in nginx: map module
There’s no switch-case in nginx, though map is available for similar but
reduced functionality cases.
TEXT Hardening iptables with limit rates
How to offload the hard work of blocking brute force to iptables.
TEXT nginx config for a WordPress Network
Easy and clean nginx config for a secure WordPress Network.
TEXT Use OwnCloud CardDAV contacts in RoundCube ( and import .vcf to OwnCloud)
How to use OwnCloud CardDAV service as address book in RoundCube and how
to import vcf into OwnCloud.
TEXT Read registry entry string with C code
Reading a non-fixed-length string from registry with the help of C?
Here’s how.
TEXT Turn your mailbox into an archieving RSS reader
Most RSS readers lack something: maybe offline version, online version,
or just managed by someone 3rd party. A simple solution: back to the
basics with rss2email, turniing the news into email.
TEXT nginx with ownCloud 3
nginx is one of the best webservers out there, owncloud make cloud
computing secure using your very own service, but putting them together
really gave me a headache.
TEXT CSS3 double borders - the two-coloured version
One element, two borders in different colours - (nearly) pure CSS3.
TEXT Loading a function from a DLL from C
Calling functions from a DLL in a C code? Don’t. But it’s possible.
TEXT Cross-browser CSS opacity and rotation with ClearType IE font render bug fixed
Really cross-browser CSS opacity or rotation with anti-aliasing even on
IE? You can do it.
IMG ie8-css-screenshot-8.png
IMG ie8-css-screenshot-10.png
IMG ie8-css-screenshot-4.png
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TEXT Mail server for a VPS: Postfix, Dovecot, Spamassassin, policyd-weight
Full featured mail server with memory footprint small enough even for a
VPS, with dovecot, postfix, spamassassin, clamav, policyd-weight with
all the configs you need.
TEXT owncloud: finally a working webDAV server in PHP
At last: turn your own server into your private cloud, interfacing any
webDAV or web-browser capable client - and you only need a webserver
with PHP!
TEXT Vertically and horizontally fluid CSS layout with height 100%
Totally fluid layout both vertically & horizontally with pure CSS, with
IE6 (!) compatibility.
TEXT Automatically version controlled directory with bazaar on linux
Dropbox-like file versioning functionality with bazaar VCS and
inotifywait.
TEXT Photoshop CS5 under linux
How to get Photoshop CS5 working on wine.
TEXT CheapVPS.co.uk KVM VPS V1 review
Review a small, UK based KVM VPS. Without expectations but with
surprisingly good results.
TEXT God save position:relative
How to fix Internet Explorer 8 rotation opacity bug
TEXT weighted average calculator code in C
A short code to achieve a very fast weighted filter calculator with
integers, using few resources.
TEXT Dell Latitude E6400 vs. Lenovo Thinkpad T400
Szubjektív felhasználói élmény és vélemény két premium business gépről.
Ultrakonzervatív Lenovo Thinkpad T400 vs ultramodern Dell Latitude
E6400, avagy: Miért nincs megbízható, erős, linuxbarát és szép üzleti
notebook a piacon?
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IMG dell_latitude_e6400-accessories.jpg
IMG thinkpad_t400.jpg
IMG thinkpad_t60_rollcage.jpg
IMG thinkpad_t400_heatsink.jpg
IMG thinkpad_t400_blue.jpg
TEXT Minimal Conky with HDD data, nVidia core temperature and Dell fan speed
Minimal, text-based conky scripts to show a really sophisticated system
monitor.
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TEXT Dell Latitude E6400 and Linux Mint 11 fine tuning
Tweaking and modifying some “minor” things in Linux Mint 11 for better
performance and usability on Dell Latitude E6400.
TEXT integer division without divide functionality
Division with integers in C, for testing 32 bit max as dividend.
TEXT Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat 2.6.38 kernel vs Broadcom STA linux driver
Feel free to install pre-released version of ubuntu kernel into the
current!
TEXT Better driver for BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n in Ubuntu 10.10
In Ubuntu 10.10, Broadcom driver is old, therefore it’s full of bugs,
and totally unusable for current cards, like BCM4322. Upgrade it.
TEXT Ubuntu 10.04 ProFTPd with mod_sftp
SFTP enabled FTP: secure, chrooted FTP server.
TEXT apache2-mpm-itk on Ubuntu 10.04 with Virtualmin running PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.2 side-by-side
Run PHP 5.2 and 5.3 on the same apache, on a production hosting server,
with security? Possible, but ugly.
TEXT Simple batch resize & watermark with imagemagick
Fast & simple batch image handling with imagemagick, from the command
line.
TEXT Hack Netgear WG602 access point to run dd-wrt
The basic system of Netgear WG602 is dumb, so get DD-WRT on top of it.
TEXT VMWare ESXi and promiscuous mode
VMWare ESXi 4.1 vs promiscuous mode
TEXT SSL status check problems with apache behind Pound reverse proxy
Rely on your own HTTP headers, because the built-in ones sometimes get
lost.
TEXT Installing PHP 5.3 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
How to get PHP 5.3 on Karmic Koala from dotdeb.
TEXT A usable theme for Ubuntu Desktop: Shiki
I never liked Ubuntu’s Humanity theme, New Wave theme in 9.10 crashes
some applications, like F-Spot, and both are brown. Now Lucid is about
to make purple (sic!) it’s default colour, so that’s not for me as well.
The solution: shiki.
TEXT Changing postfix's incoming smtp port
Which line to change to have Postfix listen on specific ports are well?
TEXT Changing to policyd-weight from postfix's built-in reject_rbl_client
Install a weighted RBL daemon for Postfix.
TEXT Quick installing eBox 1.2 with managesieve and custom spam filtering under Ubuntu 8.04
Although eBox has it’s own distribution, I wanted to get it work on
Ubuntu 8.04 - but the version in the repo is only 1.0, and I really
needed 1.2.
TEXT Installing apache2-mpm-itk on a Virtualmin based Ubuntu 8.04
A brief writing on installing apache-mpm-itk on Ubuntu 8.04 server.
TEXT Motorola E398
Nekem tetszik. Bár eddig volt egy belépő, egy közép és egy
üzleti-jellegű mobilom (Alcatel OT301, Ericsson T29s, Siemens S55),
nekem ő is tetszik. Tény, hogy néhány PIM funciót hiányolok (rendes
szinkronizálás Outlookkal, jegyzetek, hangjegyzet), de végül is nem erre
tervezték. Fiataloknak és zeneőrülteknem szánták, annak pedig tökéletes.
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TEXT Siemens S55 vélemény
Szép (formatervezési díjat nyert), jó, rendkívül okos, de túlságosan
kicsi. Az üzleti szférát célozták vele, de elfelejtették, hogy az
üzletember elsősorban telefonál, aztán a többi - arra pedig sokkal
alkalmasabb pl. a Nokia 6310i, ami a színes kijelzőt és a kamerát
leszámítva ugyanezeket tudja, csak sokkal kényelmesebb telefonálni vele.
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TEXT Ericsson T29s
Baromira elegem lett abból, hogy mindig, minden oldalon csak reklámok
vannak, de valódi cuccok nem, hát gondoltam felteszek néhányat saját
tapasztalatok alapján.