There are various different ways to generate rrdtool images. And most people will probably be generating elaborate ones out of perl or php scripts. The ones I am currently generating are built in a shell script (bash) and I was really having a problem with quotes and white space here for a while. If you [...]
Archive > May 2009
Du bist Terrorist (You are a Terrorist)
Sadly, this isn’t a joke or just being paranoid. The politicians are going a bit overboard with internet censorship right now (elections this year). They are currently trying to pass a law, allowing the BKA (the German FBI) to block sites on the internet and monitor people trying to access the blocked sites. The BKA [...]
Fix for networking problems with Windows 7 RC in vmware
If you are having problems getting Windows 7 RC networking to work in vmware, try this little trick:
shutdown the vmware guest
edit the .vmx and insert/edit the following line:
ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000″
That was it, boot up the guest and enjoy your working network again.
sasl bins broken in latest debian testing update
The latest version of sasl2-bin in the debian testing tree is a bit broken, the binaries are all segfaulting. the easiest workaround for the problem till it gets fixed is to downgrade:
cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
dpkg -i sasl2-bin_2.1.22.dfsg1-23_i386.deb
