Why could I need Windows Vista?

Scoble posted a link that tries to tell us why we could need Windows Vista. Though I am fascinated by the new look and some of the gimmicks Vista will have - these points do not really convince me. Maybe I’ll have the time to point out exactly why. Read more →

moved to WordPress.com

I decided to move to WordPress.com - why? Because www.jroller.com was to slooow, and sometimes unavailable. Too bad for my google rank 😆 Read more →

secure wireless lan

On saturday I had to install another wireless lan and I used a D-Link DI-624+ router. When I searched for a method to generate a WEP or WPA password I found a very good page about the configuration of this router (its in german). It contains a link to software from a ct’ article that allows you to generate WPA and WEP keys - very usefull. I used the WPA-PSK encryption mode which is more secure than WEP. Read more →

Ubuntu 5.10 released

Today Ubuntu 5.10 was released give it a try if you are looking for a modern, stable, good looking linux desktop distribution 😉 Read more →

improving console video mode

I wanted to improve the resolution of the console on a linux server. After reading some forums and HOWTO’s I found out that it’s very easy, you just have to add vga=MODE to your kernel parameters - where MODE stands for the desired screen resolution.The possible screen resolultions are listet here. These values are hexadecimal so vga=791 stands for 1024×768 and 16 Bit Colors (0×317). Read more →

mounting SATA disk on startup

A friend of mine had trouble with his VDR based on Debian Sarge - he added a SATA disk, partitioned, formatted an mounted it, added an entry in/etc/fstab and everything seemed to be fine - until he rebooted.When the system booted the disk was not mounted automatically at the mount point defined in /etc/fstab. After logging in and typing mount -a the disk was mounted correctly. The problem was that the required modules for SATA were not loaded early enough. Read more →

new debian mail server

Today I finished the setup of my new mail server. Based on the recently released Sarge 3.1 I used the following configuration: exim - as MTA fetchmail - to collect my emails from various accounts procmail - to pipe incoming mails through the spam and virus filters dovecot - IMAP Server squirrelmail - webmail interface spamassassin - THE anti-spam-solution ClamAV - to check new mails for virus Of course the web interface and the IMAP server are only accessibly through a secure connection. Read more →