The original stock kernel of my ZTE Tureis has been wildly hacked together by the manufacturer somewhere between 2010 and 2011. In the following years many other developers made changes and enhancements on github.com. In the middle of 2013 I…
If you're hosting many little files but don't want to setup GIT/rsync/FTP etc. for other people, Apache and CGI may just suit you perfectly. Or any other webserver out there which is able to handle CGI. This little bash script…
I am more of the occasional gamer, but sometimes I want to enjoy titles that are only running in Wine and don't have a Linux port yet. As most of the games for PC's are optimized for using the Xbox…
Don't you hate running an extra computer with Windows on it just to start up the server application of an old game? Or do you want to host a server for a game but there is no Linux binary available?…
Yeah right - that's the title! And that is what I wanted to achieve this time. My regular readers know that I am running Slackware64 -current since...years. One thing that has always bugged me was Firefox not having H.264 and…
WhatsApp is a nice little tool to stay in contact with your friends, privacy issues set aside. The only problem I have with it so far is that it only runs on my phone. I'm at my computer very often…
Update December 2016: The new package jsoncpp is now needed to display the ingame server browser. Update June 2016: New versions of "Rigs of Rods" are being built regularly now, see more. The instructions below are still valid. I was able…
Recently, I discovered how to generate a perfect 5.1 upmix out of a stereo signal on Microsoft Windows. I also wanted to do this on Linux which is way more complicated and involves editing a text file called .asoundrc. But…
Recently amazon's Audible audiobook store had a great deal - one could get Stephen Hawkings "A brief history of time" entirely for free when using the code "Hawking" in the store. However, Audible uses a DRM mechanism. So in order…
Recently, my C-Media CM6206 soundcard from china died and so I was forced to use the integrated soundchip of my motherboard, a VT1705 from VIA. What the C-Media software could easily handle was using a stereo source and upmix it…