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July 23rd, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , ,

As explained in my previous post, I needed a flexible way to schedule a small script to run, with variable parameters.
The basic requirements were:

simple to configure (no messing in crontabs)
flexible enough to have different schedules on different weekdays (on Sundays a job should be started at another time than on Mondays, for example)
should offer the [...]

July 23rd, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , , |

This week I needed a solution to block and unblock certain IPs from accessing the internet at certain times.I didn't want to change my firewall script too much and didn't want to change it every time the rules changed (which change a lot due to variable circumstances).
So I created a two-part solution. In this post [...]

June 13th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , ,

Last October I wrote some posts about installing older Slackware versions on VMware. I have since sort of abandoned VMware for several reasons:

It might be free for personal use, but it is not Open software
It is a hassle to keep it functioning with every kernel change
The latest versions need PAM, which can be installed on [...]

May 30th, 2009 by Niels Horn in |

Just a quick note…
xpdf has been updated for Slack/390.This is a security patch, so update your -current system with SlackPkg without further ado!
In the mean time: I've been playing around with ARMedslack. I'm just waiting for an opportunity to test it on real hardware, but for the moment I'm running it on the [...]

May 27th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , ,

As I've been using Linux for over a decade, I am asked a lot of questions about my favorite operating system. I don't consider myself an expert, just an experienced enthusiast
One question that pops up every now and then is about the "ideal" partitioning scheme for Linux.The short answer is that there is [...]

May 2nd, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

As promised in my previous post, some instructions to use SlackPkg in Slack/390 to keep your installation up-to-date.
After almost two years without activiry, the maintainers have released some patches / upgrades for Slack/390 - both the -stable and the -current versions.Since I use SlackPkg on my other Slackware installations (12.1, 12.2 & -current), I wanted [...]

May 1st, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

For those who have been following my posts on installing Slack/390 on Hercules:There has been a security update this week - see the ChangeLog
I recently managed to patch a current version of SlackPkg to work on Slack/390 (the version included in /extra does not work).I'll try to organize my notes during the following days and [...]

April 18th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

In a previous post I wrote something about our little friend Tux, the symbol of Linux.
On most computers running Linux he'll show up while the kernel is starting up the main services, once for every processor in your system. This little picture in compiled into the kernel and, if you have the sources on your [...]

April 18th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , |

It's been a week since Easter, but here is a little article I found about a sculpture of Jesus, build in a church in Vasteras, Sweden. It was made using 30.000 pieces:
The article can be found here.

April 18th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , |

As a big fan of Slackware, I try to follow the -current branch of this distribution on two of my machines at home.Doing this is not a good idea on a production machine, as things might stop working. The -current branch is mainly for testing newer versions of packages. The developers of Slackware are usually [...]

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