So since I run some old/slow hardware, I want to get the max out of them, speedwise, without upgrading anything on the hardware side. So one of the things I do is to re-compile the applications/libraries with some customized CFlags. CFlags allow you to instruct your compiler (GCC ...

Just a quicky for today.. I could have sworn that there was a oneliner on commandlinefu.com (which is a great page btw!) to add a random album to MPD (Music Player Daemon), but I wasn't able to find it. So time to quickly build one on my own ...

In the age of multi-core CPU's, there's also a need for properly optimized application. Since the vast majority of the linux utilities only allow you to specify ONE input/output file, it's our job to script it to exhaust all the Cores.
When I got my first ...

In my last job, I was responsible for our exchange-environment (Exchange 2007), where we've had a lot of users with HUGE mailboxes. They kept requesting new/adjusted limits all the time, so instead of 'wasting' our 'engineers-time' for all the requests, we've came up with a pretty nice ...

As the title indicates, this article will show you an example usage of chroot, where we'll clone our currently running system into a disk-image (dd). Doing that, we can afterwards loop-mount it, chroot in it and let all the stuff run, that we don't want on our mainbox ...

Since I've had quite a bunch of failing harddrives recently in for recovery, I've created some scripts which help me doing that.

So there's one script that simply parses a logfile from DDrescue and shows you the amount of data already recovered, and the amount that's ...