Turn splash screen off and remove it from initrd on Fedora 20

Posted on Sa 23 August 2014 in Linux • Tagged with boot, boot splash, Fedora, initrd, plymouth, splash

To remove the splash screen on Fedora and boot up with details run:

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme details

For me on Fedora 20 it did not work out of the box:

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme details --rebuild-initrd

The new created initrd go the name initrd-3.15.6-200.img and not initramfs-3.15.6-200.fc20 …


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Custom Kernel on Fedora 20

Posted on Sa 23 August 2014 in Fedora • Tagged with custom kernel, Fedora, Grub, initrd, kernel, Linux

The last time I built a Linux kernel for my machine was quite a time ago. In my Linux hacking times when I did my private researches on how Linux works and how the software can be built for it, I used Gentoo and there it was normal to build …


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Security reviews became sexy nowadays, we need to make them happen

Posted on Fr 22 August 2014 in Blogging • Tagged with Open Source, security, source code

If you're interested in software security you will have noticed that there where some bigger  security problems with widely used software the last year. The attention this problems get in common media raised the last two years. We had some big security problems in the past as well, just remember …


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Some more details howto configure your nginx server with SSL

Posted on Do 21 August 2014 in FreeBSD • Tagged with Nginx, openssl, ssl, tls

The guys from bsdnow.tv did a great job by putting together a tutorial with some more details on a proper Nginx configuration and a very good choice for SSL parameters. There where some parts I didn't know neither and the tutorial is create as always.

If you want to …


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Quake style terminal for KDE

Posted on So 17 August 2014 in Linux • Tagged with KDE, Fedora

A quite useful extension for my KDE application is **yakuake**. In my default configuration this shows a terminal window by pressing F12 button and hides the windows by pressing it again. This is widely known as the Quake terminal style from the game which had this behaviour included for its …


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Migration in progress

Posted on Di 29 Juli 2014 in Blogging

This post is mostly about the blog itself. As you may noticed I am migrated the blog to full HTTPS the last week. This now should allow you to access the site without any certification warnings over HTTPS. All contents should be migrated. There should be a working redirection mechanism …


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Dual boot system with UEFI and Fedora 20 and Windows 8.1

Posted on Mo 26 Mai 2014 in Fedora • Tagged with dualboot, Fedora, Grub, Linux, UEFI

In short sentences:

Yes it is possible! Even with secure boot enabled!

The long version:

On my workstation I use a dual boot configuration for some games and my Linux based development and testing. Since I am using a UEFI only configuration it was quite easy to use a dualboot …


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Rip CD to FLAC file using K3b on Fedora

Posted on So 06 April 2014 in Linux • Tagged with Fedora, FLAC

If you want to rip your cd without loosing quality you can use the flac format to do so. K3b comes with a FLAC plugin but the flac encoder itself was missing on my Fedora 20 machine. Just install it and you will be able to rip your cd to …


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Make the Fedora/CentOS/RHEL update service the fastest

Posted on So 06 April 2014 in CentOS • Tagged with Fedora, MQTT, yum

Since I played with some publish and subscribe protocols in the last months, I came to an idea to speed up the notification and delivery of software updates over the existing mechanism while reducing, or better optimizing, the needed resources.

Here a graphic to show what I try to implement …


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Build Paho MQTT c library on Mac OS X

Posted on So 06 April 2014 in MQTT • Tagged with C++, MQTT, Paho

This post describes how to build the Paho MQTT library on Mac OS X with MacPorts openssl.

Prepare your system

Install the compiler

You need Xcode or the Xcode command line utils. If you're not sure if they are already installed open a terminal and try to run the gcc …


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