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256 colors galore!

My weblog is littered with widespread tips about configuration for common shell tools and I post the occasional screenshot to flickr just to show off. I often get mails/comments regarding the used...

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Gentoo Wallpaper

I just found this wallpaper I seem to have made in ’06 (around August) and posted to the Gentoo Forums. It never went anywhere, but it would be a shame to let it go to waste, so here you go. Don’t ask...

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Aspire One / X.org screen blanking

When using X on my Acer Aspire One (110L) and playing videos with mplayer, X would occasionally blank the screen after a few minutes without any way out but to suspend/resume to get your X back. This...

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msmtp queueing for offline use

When you start using a small and slow laptop over an unreliable GPRS connection (say while travelling in an ICE at 300km/h) you start noticing certain things that are missing from your current...

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OpenSSH: Reuse existing connections / Reverse tunnel

You often hear the phrase “the swiss knife of …”. Well, for networking, OpenSSH clearly deserves that title in my opinion. Besides the obvious feature of providing secure logins with different options...

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Command-line warriors, part one

This is a post about some things you might have used a graphical tool for in the past, but which can be done just as well using command-line tools. Since I keep finding these little gems I hope I can...

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ALIX 2D13: First impressions

I desperately needed a new toy, and found the perfect match with the ALIX 2D13 board from Swiss manufacturer PCEngines. I’ve had good experiences with the WRAP-board more than four years ago, so I knew...

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ALIX 2D13: 2.6.35, LEDs, lighttpd, lmsensors

It’s a good thing I waited a few days before releasing my next ALIX-post. I was gonna talk about the leds-alix module and where to download it, but in the meantime 2.6.35 was released and already...

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WEP cracking with aircrack-ng

Up until recently I thought of quickly cracking a WEP-enabled wireless as complicated. I was under the impression that not only special wireless NICs were needed to perform the necessary attack, but...

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Photo and video post-processing using Linux

As you might have noticed I tend to shoot a lot of photos (and recently the occasional video) on events such as parties and birthdays. Being a Linux user, and a strong believer in...

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