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 the past I've been using Gammu / Wammu to connect my mobile to my computer. One of the features I liked most, was the sms-export. It allows you to export into the native-gammu-format, into an .mbox file or directly upload it to an IMAP server. I kept exporting them ...

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 ...

There seems to be a bug with the bluetooth daemon on the android phone (in my case the Motorola Milestone), which prevents from enabling the bluetooth. If you're trying to enable it in the option menu, it shows you the message that it's getting enabled, but stays like ...