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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …