Das Werkstatt

[Problem] You have a service running, e.g. some replication service, and can access it from outside without a problem using a normal POSTROUTING IPTables Line; But from the inside, you hit a wall if you use the EXTERNAL PUBLIC IP and thus must reconfigure the client every time depening on if you're...

[Problem] After a fresh installation on a 100% checked brand-new SSD, every other time the OS boots up, it throws you to a irresponsive black screen with a blinky cursor and thats it. Pushing reset a few times leads to the system booting normally (it appears to die before really initializing anythi...

"I'am not an idiot, iam a special edition"

and

"
'People believe every quote on the internet, if a prominent name is behind it'
- Abraham Lincoln
"

Was wird für Audiotechniker immer kleiner, je näher das Wochenende rückt? - Der Rauschabstand

- G

In that case, what also would be working:
"Music is a drug. Not a Product."
"Music is torture. Sometimes."

"Special device does not exist". [Problem] After installing a new disk, partitioning it and mkfs.whatever it, you edit the /etc/fstab file to automount the disk on reboot per UUID. You get the UUID per command 'blkid', enter the syntax correctly, but only get the error message "Specia...

"Have you tried turning it on and off again?"
"Yes!"
"Is it plugged in?"
"Of cou... oh. Thanks" *hangs up*

XD

[Problem] Often in the LAN, its needed to mount ISOs into a samba share on a linux server. It would be awesome to automatically do this :) [Idea] 1. ISOs are created/downloaded/whatever 2. The ISOs are put automatically into a folder 3. A script/daemon scans this folder periodically(?) and: * creat...

[Bug 41025] NEW: ShowFoto creates Gbs of undo cache on /var/tmp/kdecache-username/ShowFoto, richv (05/24/2008 18:16) ... Known issue: Go to /var/tmp/kdecache-username/ShowFoto to find the (usually) useless undo data that ShowFoto created. Uh, kill it to freeup space,or something. Thats 19.99$ for th...

[Problem] Eggdrops that have been running for YEARS without a problem died today. The reason: The drive where they write their .user and the logfiles was filled to the last bit. The bots tried to write information to their .user files and appearently failed to do so, yet saving the uncomplete chang...

I hate how i sometimes cant even drink enough to puke enough when i read some articles in this subforum. Or watch the news. Or whatever

Its just not possible to keep a human being in a state of permanent drunkiness without totally ruining their body.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[Problem] After a reboot, no USB mouse is recognized correctly anymore. Windows says the driver installation for "USB Browser Mouse" failed. Reinstalling the manufacturers mouse driver does not fix the issue. [Solutions] In the Device Manager, find the 'Unknown Device' that currently repr...

First experiences: 1. Full HD real time transcoding on a AMD X2 5200+ w/ 4GB RAM is too slow, also the 100Mbit LAN could be a bottleneck. As the CPU/RAM should easily be enough tho, i think it might be a misconfiguration somewhere with the used transcoders 2. Its hard to manually create a PMS.conf f...

[Target] Install and run a PS3 MediaServer running uPnP Protocol to stream HD video content to the PS3 console. [How-to] 1. sudo apt-get install mplayer ffmpeg vlc libtsmux0 sun-java6-jre mencoder 2. wget http://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-linux-1.10.5.tgz (check for newer releases!) 3. ...

The Phoronix Test Suite looks EXACTLY like the thing we want/need, and will be included in repositories for Ubuntu starting version 9.04 It runs benchmarks in batch automated - RAM, CPU, GFX tests, also Software tests (Apache Benchmarks, OpenSSH signs per second, ...) and outputs nice statistics, of...