For those of you out there not living/working in Luxembourg a short introduction. Luxtrust is a company based in Luxembourg selling authenication tokens or cards to use in combination with your online banking. The login they use is done via a Java Applet which is all fine so far …

Here a prove of how awesome the hosting @ linode really is. If you are looking for a hosting provider which offers a lot with an easy to use dashboard to configure/install your OS, look no further. I had my machine running for more than 470 days, but I had …

Hey you all out there, today I want to show off my very simple but nice conky setup that I use on my Laptop. The layout is fairly small to match the resolution of my laptop's monitor. The configuration uses only conky functions and uses the fonts Terminus and AvantGardeLTMedium …

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 …

This is a little tutorial about how to compiler python-kinterbasdb from source in ubuntu, due to the fact that the official packages are broke. First off you need the following dependencies build-essentials, python-dev, firebird2.1-dev.

root@linuxbox:~$ apt-get install build-essential python-dev firebird2.1-dev

Afterwords download the latest package from https …

Have you ever had the need to do an rsync from a Linux box to a Windows machine and googled around, tried it with cygwin, but you didn't want to install the whole cygwin environment. Well I have a solution just for you. The guys from ITeF!x put together …

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 …

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 …

At work we use a lot of Firebird databases, and so far our system admins checked the availability of a Firebird Database by simply trying to connect via telnet to the port 3050 and see if they would get a response. With this kind of check you can't really determine …

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 …