Category Archives: Allgemein
Ubuntu Berlin @ LinuxTag 2010 – pickings
Saturday evening this years LinuxTag, Europes largest open source fair, closed its doors. As LinuxTag is presented at Berlin, the “Ubuntu Berlin” was happy to support it in different activities. Let me sum up some of them: 1) Ubuntu Community … Continue reading
My Mom Runs Ubuntu – Update for Ada Lovelace Day
Just a couple of days ago I wrote update the upcoming “Ada Lovelace Day” – celebrating women in technology on the 24nd of March, which happens to be today. The day pledges for blog posts about this topic and here … Continue reading
A quick note on MySQL troubleshooting and MySQL replication
PLEASE NOTE: I am currently reviewing and extending this document. While caring for a remarkable amount of MySQL server instances, troubleshooting becomes a common task. It might of interest for you which Recovering a crashed MySQL server After a server … Continue reading
Ubuntu developers visiting Ubuntu Berlin and c-base – plus interview with Mark Shuttleworth
A couple of months ago I started annoying people by telling them, I’d like to show the Ubuntu Berlin community and c-base to Mark Shuttleworth as he is interested in community personally on one side and Ubuntu Berlin is a … Continue reading
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Release Party on 1st of November at c-base (Berlin)
So, half a year has passed and it’s time again to celebrate a new Ubuntu release. This is an invitation for you, your friends and any other human being around to join our “Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Release Party” on Saturday, … Continue reading
Having fun with OpenSSH on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex – visual host keys
After having a quite uneventful upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (time for a change), I’s happy to notice, that Intrepid Ibex ships the new OpenSSH version 5.1 which has one little feature, I really fell in love with: visual host … Continue reading
my package of the day – htmldoc – for converting html to pdf on the fly
PDF creation got actually fairly easy. OpenOffice.org, the Cups printing system, KDE provide methods for easily printing nearly everything to a PDF file right away. A feature that even outperforms most Windows setups today. But there are still PDF related … Continue reading
my package of the day – htop as an alternative top
“top” is one of those programs, that are used quite often but actually nobody talks about. It just does its job: showing statistics about memory, cache and cpu consumption, listing processes and so on. Actually top provides you some more … Continue reading
my package of the day – mtr as a powerful and default alternative to traceroute
Know the situation? Something is wrong with the network or you are just curious and want to run a “traceroute”. At least under most Debian based systems your first session will probably look like this: $ traceroute www.ubuntu.com command not … Continue reading
my package of the day – gpg for symmetric encryption
Though asymmetric encryption is state of the art today, there are still cases when you probably are in need of a simple symmetric encryption. In my case, I need an easy scriptable interface for encrypting files for backup as transparent … Continue reading