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Linuxulator D-Trace probes committed to current
A while ago I committed the linuxulator D-Trace probes I talked about earlier. I waited a little bit for this announcement to make sure I have not broken anything. Nobody complained so far, so I assume...
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Free DLNA server which works good with my Sony BRAVIA TV
In several previous posts I wrote about my quest for the right source format to stream video to my Sony BRAVIA TV (build in 2009). The last week-end I finally found something which satisfies me. What I...
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Algorithm to detect repo-copies in CVS
FreeBSD is on its way to move from CVS to SVN for the version control system for the Ports Collection. The decision was made to keep the complete history, so the complete CVS repository has to be...
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Book review: FreeBSD Device Drivers
In mid-April a woman from the marketing department of No Starch Press contacted me and asked if I am interested to do a public review of the FreeBSD Device Drivers book by Joseph Kong (no link to a...
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Hats off to the people handling the recent security incident
I pull my hat to the people handling the recent security incident on the FreeBSD infrastructure. Guys: Thanks a lot for the countless hours you invested to find and close the initial attack vector....
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Which crypto card to use with FreeBSD (ssh/gpg)
The recent security incident triggered a discussion how to secure ssh/gpg keys. One way I want to focus on here (because it is the way I want to use at home), is to store the keys on a crypto card. I...
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Calculating the target size of H264 videos
From time to time I convert videos to H264. When I do this I want to get the best quality out of a give filesize. This means I create VBR videos. The question here is, how big the target video file...
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OpenPGP crypto cards ordered
I wrote in a previous blog post that I want to switch to crypto cards for use with ssh and GnuPG. After some research I settled on the OpenPGP cryto cards. I ordered them from kernelconcepts. As soon...
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Status crypto cards HOWTO: problems with the card reader (support could be...
After hours (spread over weeks) I come to the conclusion that there is a lot of potential to improve the documentation of card readers (but I doubt the card reader vendors will do it) and of the pcsc...
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Linuxulator explained: How to create Linux binaries on FreeBSD
There may by cases where you want to generate a Linux binary on a FreeBSD machine. This is not a problem with the linuxulator, but not with the default linux_base port. As you may know, the linux_base...
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Updating FreeBSD 8.2 (or 9.x) to 10 (beta4)
This is a little description how I remotely (no console, booted into multi-user during update, no external services like jails/httpd/… running) updated a FreeBSD 8.2 to 10 (beta4) from source. This...
View ArticleGaining space on Android after ART->Dalvik switch (root access required)
I (still) use a Nexus S phone. I am using Cyanogenmod on it. After an article in a computer magazine I decided to give the ART-runtime a try instead of the default Dalvic-runtime. Unfortunately I do...
View ArticleEssen Hackathon status report — 1st day/evening
The Essen Hackathon 2015 starts. More or less around 6pm people started to show up (including myself). The socializing session (BBQ) had some funny/interesting stories, and provided already some...
View ArticleEssen Hackathon Status report — 2nd day
I had a look at the open PR’s for a quick-win and found one where the dependencies where incomplete. Fixed. Then I reviewed Alan Jude’s patch for 64bit linux_base-c6 ports (on amd64). Looks good so...
View ArticleEssen Hackthon 2015 — last day status
I committed the 64bit support for the linux base ports (disabled by default, check the commit message), but this broke the INDEX build. Portmgr was faster than me to revert it. All errors are mine. I...
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Essen Hackathon 2015 — How it looks like
For those curious how it looks like: Clockwise starting from the bottom left: flo, rodrigo, dru, Tux (in the background, acting as a guard-dog^Wpenguin of the Linuxhotel), bcr, lme, kp, brueffer. From...
View ArticleTransition to nginx: part 1, converting Horde webmail
I am a longtime apache user. It may be that I touched apache 1.2 for the first time. Recently I decided to check out nginx. So I decided to do it on my own webmail system. The end result is, I replaced...
View ArticleTransition to nginx: part 2 — converting a gallery v2 installation
In my first transition to nginx I wrote that I was happy about the speed increase I got for my Horde webmail setup. Afterwards I converted a Gallery v2 installation (yes, old, not under active...
View ArticleTransition to nginx: part 3 — short and easy config snippets
After some medium-difficoulty transitions in part 1 and part 2, here some easy ones: phpMyAdmin: take the basics from one of the two other blog posts (see above) without location directives. For...
View ArticleTransition to nginx: part 4 — CGI scripts
I still have some CGI scripts on this website. They still work, and they are good enough for my needs. When I switched this website to nginx (the WordPress setup was a little bit more complex than what...
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