The ad on eBay literally jumped into my face: "Classic aluminum model with real keys, 2008." The accompanying image promised a very high-quality eBook reader with a leather cover that makes it look like a real book: .For a long…
For my first music production steps on Linux I wanted to switch to a low-latency kernel and back again. It wasn't that easy, but here I'll show you how.
Some time ago I suddenly received to smartphones in my postbox - these phones were sent to me by a shop on Aliexpress. This was much to my surprise, because I did not order them and I was actually expecting…
A few months ago I started to build a retro computer out of broken parts from the junkyard and extremely cheap stuff off the internet. Playing games like I used to back when I was a kid (Duke Nukem 3D…
After some incidents with bad performance, shitty network links and extremely outdated software (Debian 8 in 2019, wtf?) I finally landed at the renowned server provider Hetzner. Hooray! A Hetzner EX52 server is a really nice machine. Two 8 terabyte harddrives…
This will be something completely different for a change. Let me tell you the story of a project that cost me a ton of time and patience. The beginning Many years ago I had the not-so-great idea to make money…
It's always the same: The deadline of your current project is yesterday and there is a quick need for a machine with a firewall and some attack prevention mechanisms. Fail2Ban is very useful in this case, because it scans all…
I own an old flatscreen TV from the manufacturer Telefunken, which is probably seven years old already. There's basically no reason to replace devices as long as they're still functioning and not horribly obsolete - and a device with a…
I'm sad to report that I will no longer update my packages for Banshee. The current Banshee repository works fine on Slackware 14.2, but I won't put any more work into it. The development of Banshee seems to have come…
I still have an old USB soundcard lying around here, which is working quite well - a Trust SC-5500p. This device works out out-of-the-box on Linux, but not so much on Windows 7 where it is only recognized by a default…