Still in heaven
Dear Gerhard, one week after you have left us after your long fight and we payed one's last respects to you today, you hopefully may find your peace! Thanks for all the things you have done for your family.…
[fun] Integrate nagios users with system ones
While I normally don't care much about Ubuntu, I'm subscribed to lauchpad.net for the packages I'm involved [http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=waja%40cyconet.org&comaint=yes] within Debian [http://www.debian.org]. Sometimes appears informative [https://bugs.launchpad.net/…
[selfnote] Find the DUN Channel of your bluetooth device
In the last days, I replaced my Nokia E90 with a Nokia N97 mini. As I'm using my mobile from time to time to hook up to the internet when traveling, I thought I just need to replace the MAC in my /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf and that&…
new nagios-plugins (1.4.14-1), now also installable on kfreebsd and hurd
Last night here at BSP [http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2010/Moenchengladbach] I released nagios-plugins (1.4.14-1), which has a couple of fixes and enhancements. For more information, see the changelog [http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/n/nagios-plugins/current/changelog] . The main change may be, that with this…
[selfnote] Change CD-image while (HVM) domU is running
# xm list | grep <VMName> # xm block-list <VMName_Number> # xm block-detach <VMName_Number> <VMName_Vdev> -f # xm block-attach <VMName_Number> file:///iso/disk.iso \ hdc:cdrom r…
dkms rocks ... or ... how to get the Intel 82576 GBit NIC running on Lenny
We ordered a couple of the new HP DL160 G6, cause they can be equipped with a lot of RAM. Unfortunately it's always the same with HP and the brandnew ProLiant 100 series ... the driver for the NICs is missing/too old in the latest stable debian release…
OpenWRT WDS works like charm
A try with OpenWRT [http://openwrt.org] 8.09 in April to setup a WDS [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System] with additional AP functionality and encryption, like described in the documentation [http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/docs/openwrt.html#x1-210001.2.2], failed [https://dev.openwrt.org/…
[selfnote] Cloning/Backing up NTFS systems
For some reasons, you may need to clone/backup NTFS based systems. Lets say your NTFS system is located at /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 is a spare partition where you can store your image. At first you need to boot a live system to take an image: # mount /dev/…