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Solaris lashing out

Posted on 2009-08-08 by Tsukasa

If you’ve been following my twitter feed you probably know that I’m not in a good mood when it comes to OpenSolaris: Not only does 2009.06 ship with a notoriously broken CIFS server, effectively rendering zfs set sharesmb=on useless for … Continue reading →

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Summer vacation is over… tra…

Posted on 2009-08-05 by Tsukasa

Summer vacation is over… trains will be crowded again starting tomorrow 🙁

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Short notice: Installing Grub4Dos on USB thumbdrives

Posted on 2009-07-29 by Tsukasa

USB thumbdrives are great. They are cheap, small devices packed with a lot of storage to carry all your important stuff. They are also great to boot administrative tools like True Image etc. On themudcrab there is a great article … Continue reading →

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Pangya! Vista Icon

Posted on 2009-07-24 by Tsukasa

I dig the Vista icons. Unfortunately not all applications come with nice icons. Pangya, for instance, still has a 32×32 low color icon despite getting constant makeovers, patches and improvements. Since I had to reinstall Microangelo anyway, I whipped up … Continue reading →

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Use Mplayer to watch DVDs, browse menus etc.

Posted on 2009-07-20 by Tsukasa

One of the weak points of Mplayer always seemed to be the support for DVD menus… or not? Actually it’s quite easy to watch DVDs and browse menus with Mplayer. All you really need is a version that has dvdnav … Continue reading →

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Es ist deine Zeit

Posted on 2009-07-16 by Tsukasa

Vodafone-Werbung “Heroes” Satire from Generation Upload

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XDCC Browser 4.41, XdccbLister and XCB files

Posted on 2009-07-07 by Tsukasa

XDCCB is a very nice script for mIRC. It automates the often lengthy process of grabbing files off IRC bots and eases navigation. XDCCB uses a list format with the extension .xcb, for this file format there’s a handy tool … Continue reading →

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Wir sind China!

Posted on 2009-06-20 by Tsukasa

Ab jetzt auch in einem Internet in Ihrer Nähe!

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Jumbo Frames, LACP, NFS

Posted on 2009-06-11 by Tsukasa

Now that my server is basically up and running for a while it’s time to get the neat stuff running 🙂 . A to-do item on my list has always been enabling jumbo frames and LACP on my Opensolaris installation. … Continue reading →

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Achtung!

Posted on 2009-05-19 by Tsukasa

Schöne neue Welt.

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Remarks on the AVM Fritz!WLAN Repeater N/G

Posted on 2009-05-18 by Tsukasa

At home we’ve always had a nasty problem: The wireless connection works fine just about anywhere but not where we need it — the room my mother’s computer resides in. Since this room is just about the only room in … Continue reading →

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My NAS Part 03: Do, Did, Done.

Posted on 2009-03-21 by Tsukasa

So, my NAS is up and running. It’s feature- and hardware-complete and I’m loving it. The Fujitsu-Siemens SAS controller worked out of the box (as predicted) and wasn’t castrated to only operate on FSC boards (nice!). The only thing I … Continue reading →

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My NAS Part 02 – It’s coming together

Posted on 2009-03-08 by Tsukasa

This series of posts will follow along as I build my very own NAS. In this second part I’ll talk about the user experience of some of the basic hardware with Linux/Solaris. So, I’ve finally added the missing pieces, namely … Continue reading →

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Find and Mount

Posted on 2009-02-21 by Tsukasa

Sometimes it just happens: Partition layouts break due to user mistakes or software/operating system errors. You’re quite lucky if your partition table just gets a tabula rasa because this means you can still recover most of your old files and … Continue reading →

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My take on nVidia’s VDPAU

Posted on 2009-02-17 by Tsukasa

Modern HD content devours a plethora of performance. My CPU spikes at 100% whenever I watch 1080p content, leading to framedrops and stuttering audio on my Linux machine. I never really understood exactly why the same video would work on … Continue reading →

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