Crashing systemd
I can really recommend to read this article about crashing systemd. I am still wondering why all the distris changed to systemd...
How to access a Virtualbox VDI-Disk
Today I wanted to copy a disk-image to a Virtualbox-disk(VDI) using dd. In this article I am going to describe how I managed to access the disk from the Linux command-line, copied the image and mounted a VDI-disk-partition
HackADay: Controlling computers and stuff with the mind
I am very slothful. I let computers do my work. That's why I became a sysadmin.In this article I am going to describe how I lifted up my lazyness to the next level by triggering a command with my mind to install a new virtual machine with: MariaDB, Nginx and Wordpress.
GNU parallel
GNU parallel is an amazing command line tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more machines. It has a lot of features and therefore a lot of options. Fortunately the manual page is full of examples.
Build errors for NVIDIA's 367.35 driver on Linux 4.7-rc7
I tried to compile nvidia's 367.35 driver on the newest Linux kernel 4.7-rc7 but I just got a bunch of compiler errors. It seems to be some kind of problem with the radix_tree-empty()-function. I found a patch for this problem here.
Speed up apt using apt-fast
apt-fast is a shellscript wrapper for apt-get and aptitude that can drastically improve apt download times by downloading packages in parallel, with multiple connections per package.
Happy Sysadmin-Day
Today is sysadmin-day: Special thanks to all system administrators: you do a great job!