Author Archives: Tsukasa

There is one really good thing about Windows Vista: It poses the perfect excuse to deny installing 10-year old 16bit applications. Frankly, I'm shocked about the high percentage of legacy applications still in use. About every week we're having trouble … Continue reading →

A new version of TrueCrypt, the open source on-the-fly disk encryption software, has been released. This update bumps the version number up to 5. Among a Linux GUI and several other nice things a real biggy is a new feature … Continue reading →

Ever since my iPod earphones died on me (must’ve been sometime in 2007) I was in search of decent earphones. Ordering another pair of shitty Apple run-of-the-mill earphones was out of question, the sound was just terrible and the hardware … Continue reading →

A while ago I was pondering about blogging clients (again?!). I vowed to intensively test Qumana and report back (or at least I intended to 😉 ). Now, I’ve been testing Qumana for a while now. In fact, all posts … Continue reading →

Ich will nochmal darauf hinweisen: Auch wenn ich nichts poste, ich surfe und bookmarke fleißig 🙂 . Meine del.icio.us Bookmarks füllen sich ständig weiter mit interessanten und kuriosen Links zu den Themen Software, Betriebssysteme, Do-it-yourself Hardware, .net und Linux/Solaris/Unix. Und … Continue reading →

I just uninstalled me’ ol’ Vista Service Pack Beta so I’m ready for the launch next month 😉 . Just a note to all other people doing the same: Don’t forget to disable IPv6 in your primary network connection again … Continue reading →

Da offensichtlich Verwirrung darüber aufkommt, was ich denn so an Animes schaue… H2O: Der typische Eroge Abfall, den man in jeder Season mit dabei hat. Nicht sonderlich unterhaltsam, aber was solls. Clannad: Immernoch Clannad, immernoch klasse. Ich liebe Umsetzungen von … Continue reading →

I know, I should’ve done this ages ago… but oh well. Now you can use OpenID instead of a regular login. I’m using this great plugin that basically does everything by itself. For some reason I’ve to use the subversion … Continue reading →

…comment on LVM and why I would never use it to keep my RAID system somewhat dynamic but that’d require me to actually gather some hard evidence that a ZFS system is much more scalable, easy to administer and mucho … Continue reading →

I have to setup a lot of systems. The sound processor on the mainboards are mainly variations of Realtek’s AC97 codec. About every company bundles it with some kind of custom software though. That makes finding the “right” driver a … Continue reading →

The nice thing about our mandatory education is that we sometimes tip topics that are not so common. So we talked about SELinux vs. AppArmor the other day (inconclusive, just a quick introduction) but I thought I’d give it a … Continue reading →

I just can’t refrain from testing blogging clients. Currently I’m playing around with a tool called Qumana which is available for free on OSX and Windows. It seems to be written in Java, so maybe giving it a spin on … Continue reading →

Shopping spree! Mainly for a presentation on FireWire I decided to get a nifty set of changers that’ll allow me to plug in my old 6-port IEEE1394a drives into the 4-port IEEE1394a port on my notebook. It’s quite trivial but … Continue reading →

Fehler schleichen sich gerne dann ein, wenn man glaubt alles unter Kontrolle zu haben. Vielleicht ist aufgefallen, dass in den letzten Wochen nicht alle Seiten auf Old-Home verfügbar waren. Das war so eine schöne Situation 🙂 . Der DynDNS Client … Continue reading →