Linux, programming and more
Another modern method for the mobile age to be up to date everywhere about your infrastructure. Everyone has a mobile device with internet access, you need only a ICQ client to receive information notifications.
Today I’m going to talk about how to bring this idea to live… [Read more…]
Last week I bought a new HDD for one friend and I started a rsync process on my tiny home-server to copy some stuff – it was around 190 GB of different stuff.
This command looks very simple and without unnecessary options but my 400 MHz CPU was pretty quick hot and I got a [Read more…]
Sure you know, this is a really bad idea;) But if you want to register a domain that contains a fückinß umlaut, this solution will work for bind. But I start with a little explanation, you are not allowed to fill the bind configs with umlauts you should transform them to punycode.
Install transformation tool:
1 | apt-get install idn |
Transform you domain:
1 | echo www.größte-scheiße.de | idn -a --quiet |
The output will be: www.xn--grsste-scheisse-9sb.de
Now you can use the converted string of your domain in the bind configuration files.
If you are using putty please set your Translation to UTF8 otherwise idn will not convert your domain;)
Another really helpful check for your Icinga or Nagios instance.
If your have any windows machines you can check the Windows Update-State. How many Updates you need to install and if you need to reboot your servers after updating them. [Read more…]
DLNA uses Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for media management, discovery and control.
I love DLNA and last year I wrote a review post about my Silver Stone DC01, which is used to browse everything from my TV. I will try to set up a little Debian Server with analogical usage to the Silver Stone DC 01. [Read more…]