SilverStone DC01 Review

Iam running out of space, the time has come to buy new storage this time not only a HDD with some capacity.
I have some new stuff @home like an new LED-TV(Samsung UE37D6510) with AllShare-DLNA, the new idea was to access all my Data from my TV.

I compared a lot of NAS-Devices and I found Silver Stone DC01, that was exactly that what I needed… Continue reading ‘SilverStone DC01 Review’

Samba passwd smbpasswd and tdbsam

Some commands to convert samba backend password-databases.

If you use “passdb backend = smbpasswd” in your smb.conf you must convert your system-user accounts to smbpasswd: Continue reading ‘Samba passwd smbpasswd and tdbsam’

Icinga: change notifications sender


All my Icinga notifications arrived with a sender “nagios@monitoring.zeldor.biz” but Iam running icinga and not nagios this is a little bit stupid.

By fixing the “commands.cfg” you can change this behavior as described below: Continue reading ‘Icinga: change notifications sender’

Cleanup Maildir alias Self-Spammer

Created a really ugly cron to check PPPoE-Connection status which runs every minute. This script produced over 500+ E-Mails in my Maildir.

This command will do the dirty cleaning job and let your fingers relaxed;) Continue reading ‘Cleanup Maildir alias Self-Spammer’

Windows 7 USB installer

I hate CDs and DVDs, we are living in digital world and one gigabyte cost at the time about 0,03€ cents. I try to copy everything on my flash drives and HDDs. This post will show you how you can throw away your windows seven CD/DVD.

Insert a 8 or 16GB usb flash drive in your USB port. Careful! this Continue reading ‘Windows 7 USB installer’