What is collectd? collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD-files. This is a short "how to get started with collectd" guide. 1) Configure and ...Read More

Collectd jumpstart

I tried several different Linux distributions (Gentoo, Debian, OpenSuse...) on my laptop, but every distribution suffered from the same problem - the maximal LAN throughput was around 5-7 kb/s... The laptop use a Realtek LAN NIC: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., ...Read More

Fujitsu Siemens E Series Lifebook and some Linux distros

DIVX movies from the Dreambox to the XBOX360">

I want to watch some divx movies on my XBOX360 (without HDD). They are stored on a DM800 Dreambox (with HDD). First you need UShare v1.1a, the UPnP Daemon. I found a static compiled mipsel version here, which will run on ...Read More

Stream DIVX movies from the Dreambox to the XBOX360

I found a very interesting project, called Picframe. Sprite hacked his digital photo keychain, now it's possible to control this mini photo frame and use it as display. He also created a new plugin for LCD4Linux. I also created a ...Read More

Mini Photo Frame Hack

I use an old laptop without USB controller and onboard LAN to capture some packets. I captured about 30Mb of data, but the laptop was just too slow to crack the captured data. So I thought easy, I send the ...Read More

Backtrack2 and ZModem

GNU Screen cheat-sheet">

Screen Home: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ Basics: -ctrl a c -> create new window -ctrl a A -> set window name -ctrl a w ...Read More

GNU Screen cheat-sheet

SSH, Debian sarge and MySQL 5">

I wanted to connect my MySql server via SSH from remote, but every time I tried to connect, i received this error message: "ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query" (MySQL Admin) or this error via JDBC: [cc lang="bash" ...Read More

SSH, Debian sarge and MySQL 5

CVS-SSH2 Server installation (debian)">

Install the CVS server: apt-get install cvs. This will install CVS, the daemon gets started with inetd and the CVS root is by default /var/lib/cvs. By default you can connect to your CVS server via pserver, but you shouldn't use ...Read More

CVS-SSH2 Server installation (debian)

200W (WSXGA)">

I use debian with XFree86 4.3.x but the WSXGA is not supported by default. To enable the video resolution of 1680x1050 (WSXGA)  you need to edit the XFree86 config file, located at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section "Monitor" Identifier      "philips200w" Option        "DPMS" HorizSync    30-93 VertRefresh    56-85 DisplaySize    433 271 Modeline    ...Read More

XFree86 and Philips 200W (WSXGA)

some usefull linux commands rpm -ivh packages(s).rpm install rpm file(s) rpm -Uvh packages(s).rpm upgrade system with rpms rpm -e package remove package rpm -q package show version of package installed rpm -q -i package show all package metadata rpm -q -f /path/file what package does file belong find -name "*.[ch]" | xargs grep ...Read More

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