Hola!

I just wanted to check the configuration of a kernel for a pre-built system. But because I just had the plain kernel image (/boot/vmlinuz) and I was too lazy to boot it up, I had to find another way to get the configuration.
Luckily in the kernel sources ...

Was just looking for quick and easy way to sort the files, which should be compressed/archived using tar and bzip/gz/xz etc. As another guy already figured out before I did, it's rather important in which order the files are stored in an archive. I don't ...

I've just been bugged by the mod_security plugin for Apache. I wanted to paste a kernelmessage where '/proc' is mentioned. Sadly this request got silently dropped. couldn't see any issue, nor 403 and the likes. A quick look at the error log indicated this:

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Well, just got 2 harddisks in for recovery. The PC manufacturer apparently decided to have 2 harddisks in a RAID0, but now since one of the harddisks failed, there was no way to simply get the data back. As you might know, RAID0 sucks! If you only have one ...

..freshly upgraded to Firefox 7, but apparently the 'HTTP://' is gone in the addressbar. If you're looking under 'Options' to get it activated again, you're wrong. So quickly the steps to re-enable it again:

• open firefox
• browse to 'about:config'
• search for 'browser.urlbar.trimURLs'
• change the value ...

I just was recently looking for a method to monitor a syslog server. But as per design, syslog works using UDP, so there's no real indication that a simple syslog message has made it through successfully. As I wanted to have this service monitored by Nagios, I was looking ...