Posted on Mo 04 Juli 2022 in GNSS • Tagged with GNNS, Galileo, Linux, Galmon
Some time ago, I stumbled over the Galmon project by Bert Hubert. Since I am into everything with space technology, this caught my attention. Bert initiated a project where you can host your own mini observing station and collect status information from …
Posted on Do 29 März 2018 in misc • Tagged with Atom, Mac, Editor, Linux, Windows
The GitHub Inc. has released the Atom editor (https://atom.io) some time ago. It is a nice editor with some basic IDE functionality. Based on the first experiences it is a stable peace of software with a fast interface. The most basic features you would like to see in …
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 …
Posted on Mo 26 Mai 2014 in Fedora • Tagged with dualboot, Fedora, Grub, Linux, UEFI
Yes it is possible! Even with secure boot enabled!
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 …
Posted on Sa 04 Januar 2014 in Linux • Tagged with Fedora, Linux, upgrade
Since the Fedora 20 release called Heisenbug is now some
weeks old and the first updates are available I decided to update my
Thinkpad. As described in older posts I prefer to reinstall the system
partition and only keep my /home partition which contains all my stuff.
This time I …
Posted on Mi 13 März 2013 in Fedora • Tagged with i3, i3wm, rpm, window manager, Fedora, Linux
The new version 4.5 of i3 and i3status 2.7 is available for Fedora 17 over my repository. Short how to update i3wm on Fedora17 can be found here.
The detailed release notes are available here:http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-4.5.txt
If your using Fedora 18 there …
Posted on Fr 03 Februar 2012 in Linux • Tagged with CentOS, OpenVPN, Linux
As I wrote in an older post there is a simple solution using ssh to tunnel your webbrowser traffic through an ssh connection to a secure and trusted endpoint. This is a very simple solution to secure your access to the web while you are in a public wifi network …
Posted on Di 02 August 2011 in Mac • Tagged with Fedora, Linux, Mac, mac os x, privacy, Tor
If you want to use Tor on your Mac OS X or Linux there is a new bundle you can easy use. The bundle includes all necessary tools and a preconfigured Firefox with the necessary plugin.
Up to now the Tor Browser Bundleis still beta but for me it …
Posted on Sa 09 Juli 2011 in Linux • Tagged with Grub, Linux
Grub is the default bootloader for the most popular Linux distributions. The installation procedure is not so easy if you're not familiar with the concept behind it.
After a restore or copy of a system to a new harddisk the bootloader needs to be reinstalled to this new disk. If …
Posted on Di 19 April 2011 in Debian • Tagged with Debian, Squid, Linux
If you need an SSL-proxy connection via squid on Debian/Linux you need to recompile the squid-2.7 package with --enable-ssl option.
Here a short step by step tutorial how to rebuild a squid .deb package with --enable-ssl option.
Enable source repository on your buildmachine. To describe it in words …