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…
After some incidents with bad performance, shitty network links and extremely outdated software (Debian 8 in 2019, wtf?)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 like to call in to a German internet portal (Massengeschmack) just to talk about its program with one of the moderators. People calling in are restricted to use Skype but the voice chat where fans meet is using Mumble…
Old games are just a habit of mine. As one can see on my maintainer list at the wine project, gaming on Linux isn't such a big problem anymore, even if there are only Windos versions of some of the games available. But…
The main operating system I'm using is Slackware - I play my games on this system for years and I always try to avoid booting into the junk Microsoft provides - whenever possible. Most games are running pretty well with…