Today was update day1. Then the expected unexpected happened: The ZFS module was missing from initramfs. Desktop's dead in the water. I boot up my laptop to quickly flash an Arch live ISO onto a USB drive, and while at it also upgrade that one. Knowing that what went …
Isolating the network interface provided by VPN software (like OpenVPN or tinc) may be a good idea if you intent to use it to isolate a program to that specific network.
This can somewhat be achieved using a separate user or group, iptables (to mark packets sent by that user …
Unfortuantely Xfce's compositor uses Xrender which does not support vertical synchronization. This seems to create a very constant tearing effect in vsynced OpenGL applications. Some drivers like Intel's open source driver or AMD or NVidia's binary blobs manage to force Xrender to vsync but the open source radeon driver doesn't …
Long story short: add "server-ipv6 network/netmask" (for example a /80 of your server's /64) to your existing openvpn config and install npd6.
The modification of the OpenVPN config is trivial. It seems to be made primarily for the tun mode but works fine with tap (Layer 2 tunelling) as …
Since I found the buttons on my monitor to be inconvenient, I decided to try to go for a commandline utility that could set the brightness. There are several ways this can be implemented:
I replaced the default browser in Xfce (Settings → Preferred
Applications) with a custom Python script to do some additional URL
handling. To open a link in Firefox you just have to run
firefox -remote OpenURL(<url>) and you can even use it with multiple
instances (add -P <profile>).
Using the …
After trying for a long time I finally have my USB Stick boot everything I want: any Linux ISO & a Windows installer.
To make the USB stick still behave properly with Windows the NTFS partition needs to be the first partition. The bootloader, Syslinux/Extlinux in this case, goes onto …
As I didn't want a full blown Desktop Environment like Gnome or KDE on my laptop (which is running ArchLinux), I went with XFCE.
It worked nicely out of the box, except for the screen brightness controls.
The hardware keys don't do anything at all by themselves except for firing …
Just place it in ~~a custom subdirectory in /usr/share/ca-certificates~~ /usr/local/share/ca-certificates and then run dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates and you're done.
Did this on a Ubuntu 10.04 System but should work on every up to date Debian-alike System.
To create your own CA you might want to …
So I finally got around to set up a daily, automated backup system.
Noop proposed dirvish to me, along with this tutorial. At first glance the tutorial looked quite complex because dirvish does have quite a lot of options to configure. I decided to try and after an hour of …