I guess we all remember Jurassic Park, and especially one feature of this movie: The “Unix-system” with that cool 3D file-browser. Well that file-browser was SGI’s 3D File System Navigator, which also helps us to know what that “Unix-system” really was, Irix. For everybody who also wants something like this on his box I’d suggest […]

With EnGarde Secure Linux Guardian Digital brings a Linux-distribution target at the use as a server which claims to be “secure by design”. Unlike most other distributions it contains SELinux by default which enhances Linux’s security-capabilities. The free Community Edition can be downloaded on engardelinux.org. You have to register before the download in order get […]

http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2006/11/24/playing-youtube-videos-without-flash/ I just saw this link on debian-user and thought it might interest some of you. This replaces the youtube default flash-based player with mplayerplug-in or VLC or something in IceWeasel or similar lizards with the Greasemonkey extension.

OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries. Full Story

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In the bash shell curly braces { and } are surprisingly useful things to reduce typing. With the mkdir command they help you create trees of directories in one command. For instance: mkdir -p foo/{bar,baz,goo/loo/imp}/buildmkdir -p foo/{bar,baz,goo/loo/imp}/build will create the following directory structure: foo/bar/build foo/baz/build foo/goo/loo/imp/buildfoo/bar/build foo/baz/build foo/goo/loo/imp/build The curly braces can also be used […]

Here‘s a quick explanation of how to do one of my inkscape tricks. Especially nice for beginners.

Plan 9 from Bell Labs was meant to be the successor of unix. Unfortunately, it is hard to make users replace something that is good enough by something better. It is free software. Plan 9 has a really nice text editor called acme. It has been ported to unix/X11 in Plan 9 from User Space, […]

Every once in a while there comes a situation where a file is too big for a CD, or you want to store a file larger than 2GB on a FAT partition, or you want to make a backup of data with UNIX-style permissions (almost a 100% necessity if backing up a $HOME folder with […]

Did you know that you don’t necessarily need flash to view YouTube videos? You don’t actually need to even visit YouTube to be able to watch a cool video that a friend gave you a link to. All you need is youtube-dl, a neat program written and actively maintained by Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez which allows […]

I’m currently trying out LFS again. I’m using BLAG (basically FC5) as the base, and I’m reminded once again at how slow doing things with source is. I hear people complain about how slow YUM is, but compared with using source AND using all the test kits it is extremely fast. In a few days […]