Started with jQuery
Since I needed a good Javascript library to ease some of the daily Javascript stuff one has to fight with I decided to start with jQuery. I used mootools al...
software
Meizu M6, Rhythmbox and HAL
I already wrote about my Meizu M6 and Rhythmbox and how to get them working together. This time HAL, the hardware abtraction layer in recent Linux systems is...
Debian Lenny eAccelerator packages (AMD64)
As I already explained I use the eAccelerator packages from Andrew McMillan.
Nominate ZeroRRD Framework for the Community Choice Award
On Sourceforge the nomination for the “Community Choice Award” has begun and I’d like to ask you to support us nominating Zero RRD Framework for the categori...
Nagios integration of Zero RRD
If you’re running Nagios as you monitoring and alerting software and Zero RRD at the same time you surely would like to integrate them.
Javascript isArray() : Check if an element/object is an Array
I work on the front-end part of Zero RRD framework again. It was a very basic interface and the usability wasn’t, well isn’t that good. The new stuff is mos...
Subversive in Eclipse Ganymede
I updated my pretty old Eclipse Europa installation to Ganymede today. OK, the restart you have to do quite often were really annoying, but besides that ever...
Conkeror: Emacs insprired browser
As I already told you I wanted to give Conkeror a try and I kept my promise. I downloaded the Ubuntu Jaunty packages and built them for my box running Intre...
Zerod appliance
A couple of days ago Holger released a zerod appliance for Virtualbox and VMWare which you can download easily. After downloading and unpacking you find a h...
Suppress column names on MySQL command line output
I use the MySQL command line interface regularly to fetch some data from a DB. Usually I want to have to column names as well, but if you want process the ou...
Meizu M6 and Rhythmbox
I own a Meizu M6 for quite a while and I’m very happy with this iPod alternative. Anyway I had the problem that Rhytmbox didn’t recognise it as a music playe...
Using Term::Prompt for terminal output from Perl
For a script I made recently to manage contacts to my LDAP server on the command line, I needed a package to easily output a prompt to the terminal.
SPAM protection on Postfix (Part 3)
Most spammers are very aggressive in terms of connection and re-connection to mail servers. Of course they want to send as many SPAM as possible in the short...
RBLs on Postfix made easy
Real-time blacklists, DNS RBL precisely, are a convenient way to mitigate the SPAM problem on your server despite all critics about it. policyd is another op...
policyd-weight and Postfix SPAM fighting
If you run your own mail server you have to think carefully about SPAM protection of course. The first line of defence is in front of the actual mail server ...
Change UUID of a Virtualbox VDI
I use <a href=”http://www.virtualbox.org/>Virtualbox</a> regularly. Recently I wanted to use a VDI twice for different machines. One intended for...
Coding style mal anders…
Es wird ja immer viel über Coding style geschrieben und diskutiert, aber der wirklich wichtige Beitrag zu dem Thema beleuchtet das ganze von einer etwas ande...
Von Exploits, Müttern und armen Kindern
Da bin ich doch gerade über ein sehr interessantes Problem gestoßen, welches ich euch nicht vorenthalten möchte.
Problems with DBI and fork()
I recently had a problem with a Perl script in connection with DBI. The script opens a DBI connection to fetch some data and then forks some child’s based o...
Umstieg auf Drupal 6
Nun habe ich es endlich gewagt und bin auf Drupal 6 umgestiegen. Zwar hatte ich das schon lange angekündigt, aber dann doch nicht in die Tat umgesetzt. Da es...
Parsing Pidgin logs (Part 2)
I already wrote some stuff on parsing Pidgin log files in a previous post.
Using SOAP::Lite with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
I recently played around with the Amazon Web Services (AWS). My idea was to use Perl and SOAP, so SOAP::Lite in fact to access the AWS to fetch some book dat...
Überwachung allerorten und doch kein Allheilmittel
Da lese ich gerade auf Golem, dass ein Gutachten […] Nutzen der Vorratsdatenspeicherung [bewzeifelt]. Aha, interessant, aber ich bin sicher nicht der einzige...
Parsing Gaim/Pidgin log files
Some time ago I read something about the gaim2imap.pl script from Mike Schilli. This nice little script parses Gaim or Pidgin logfiles (located at ~/.gaim/l...
Using IMAP::Client with Cyrus IMAP server
I’m currently working on a personal project where I want to access my Cyrus IMAP-Server using Perl. Hence I looked at CPAN and there are two major modules de...
Typo3: Add nofollow to external links
For some reasons I have to use Typo3 besides my beloved Drupal and I faced the problem that I want to add the rel="nofollow" attribute to all external links.