First of all I want to make clear that I always liked FTP. And I still prefer it over uploading my files through a web-interface, but I now have found quite a big reason why FTP really really sucks. And here it is: FTP has clearly not been designed to upload 7000 files. Right now […]
ACLs: Extended file-permissions
In Windows they are used for a long time already, but most Linux-users probably don’t even know that their system supports them too. Access Control Lists (ACLs) extend the regular permissions we all know with the possibility to give permissions for specific users/groups. With a little example I want to show how to use ACLs […]
Suspend to disk – does it still make sense?
I just ran into this question and thought I’ll post it here to see what others think. My personal opinion is that it doesn’t, and here’s why: I have 8GB of RAM, and although most of it usually is free (or just used by the cache and thus free-able in case of suspension) I have […]
Now do I have 3D-Acceleration or not?
Until this weekend I happened to think that when glxinfo tells you “Direct Rendering: Yes” you can actually enjoy accelerated 3D. Well, it seems that I was wrong, and that this indicator alone does not give you fast 3D. A bit of history: I was playing around as in KDE I was still using 1024×768, […]
POSIX Capabilities Vs. Set-UID
I’ve been mentioned the POSIX-capabilities in my post about EasyLFS 0.5 and promised another post to clarify what they actually are about. This is the promised post. POSIX-capabilities are actually nothing new, but haven’t been given much attention so far. This now has changed, they are now supported by the kernel and the necessary library […]