Drbd partition mount check bash one liner

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 by Frank Lazzarini

This is just a quick tip for you out there that use DRBD in simple Primary/Secondary mode and need to check whether a script is executed on the node which is currently Primary and has the Drbd Filesystem mounted. Let's just say you need to copy stuff onto your …

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Get QuakeLive Plugin working in Firefox 5 on Linux

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 by Frank Lazzarini

As Firefox 5 got released for linux, and as most of you already switched to it I wanted to update my earlier post about getting the QuakeLive Plugin to work on Firefox 4 . Not much changed, basically all you need to do is changed the maxVersion in the install.rdf …

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Wep Wifi Hacking

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 by Frank Lazzarini

Finally a few days off work...due to the national holiday in Luxembourg I took the opportunity to take a few extra days, to spend some time on the coast of Belgium with my girlfriend. But don't you just hate that when you are on vacation and you want to …

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Weekly folder of your new files

Sat, 14 May 2011 by Frank Lazzarini

Do you know the problem, you have a massive directory with tons of media data, and after work you want to watch the latest episode of your favorite show, and you jump into that directory knowing that there is a new episode, but that directory is cramped up with so …

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Get QuakeLive Plugin working in Firefox 4 on Linux

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 by Frank Lazzarini

For all of those out there who have problems getting the QuakeLive plugin to work with Firefox 4 in Linux here's a little how to on getting it up and running. When you go to the page and you don't have the plugin installed yet, the page tries to install …

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Easter Eggs in gentoo

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 by Frank Lazzarini

As it is easter time, I though I would compile a list of funny easter eggs that you can find in Gentoo. Why gentoo, cause I simply love this distro, it's all about customization/optimization and knowing what's really going on on your system. I used to be a gentoo …

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Rename white spaces in folders to dots

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 by Frank Lazzarini

Don't you just hate when you get a copy of a scene release from somewhere and the guy that gave it to you "descened" the release folder, i.e out of Something.other.than.Potato.HDTV.XviD became Something other than Potato HDTV XviD. So how to fix this, in …

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Useful Wallpaper for Linux newbies

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 by Frank Lazzarini

Today, I stumbled over this really useful wallpaper (if you are a newbie), which is a list of useful Linux commands. Use this as your default background and if you have some spare time hanging arround on your desktop you can read up a few commands, their meaning and their …

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Multiple Firebird Servers on Ubuntu

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 by Frank Lazzarini

In this tutorial I will show you how to install multiple separate Firebird 2.1 servers on a single Host, lets just say you are short on budget and you want to have your testing/integration database running on the same environment as your production database, which is usually not …

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Openvpn Server Failover with Drbd, Heartbeat and Pacemaker

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 by Frank Lazzarini

I recently needed to experiment with a setup of having a highly available Openvpn server, as one of our clients asked for this. As I've just got this working I thought I would share with the world how I managed to get this setup working. I won't go into any …

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