A view month ago I ordered at Crowdsupply this amazing little usb-device. This usb-device is a little computer(800MHz ARM® processor, 512MB RAM). I ordered it with a pre-installed Linux SD-Card. And finally they got enough money to produce and ship it.

Today I discoverd a problem with my Software-Raid. The Raid-Array stopped rebuilding with resync=PENDING.

Dark-matter researcher Dave Vader was unimpressed, breathing heavily in disgust throughout the press conference announcing the results…”

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/04/cern-researchers-confirm-existence-force

If a raid is rebuilding disk access is mostly very slow. Sometimes it’s better to slow down the rebuild-process for a while. This can easily done by:

echo 100 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max

Default value for speed_limit_max is on my system 200000

Irssi has so many features, that I have no idea where to start. This command-line irc-client is just awesome. There are plenty of scripts for it out in the web and it is fully customizable. It is possible to start it as a irc-proxy, and then connect to the proxy using a second locally started irssi. Irssi has everything a really good chat-client must have.

Newsbeuter is an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems. Newsbeuter’s great configurability and vast number of features make it a perfect choice for people that need a slick and fast feed reader that can be completely controlled via keyboard.

I always used the audio-player XMMS. When the developers stopped working on it, I was a bit lost. Most of the other players just have too many features I don’t want(like a database). I need a small, customizable audio-player. So I am very glad that I found CMUS, which is exactly what I needed. I really recommend to have a look at it..

Software-Raid can be a pain in the a$$. What if a disk has some kind of temporary failure, jumps out of it’s raid-array and creates is own raid-array(all the raid-informations are stored on the disk)? That’s bad, because then we have 2 raid-arrays with the same data(raid-fork). If we also use LVM2 things start to get really bad. Because then it might happen, that the “wrong” raid-array is automatically used at boot-time…

There is a nice git-game on github: https://github.com/hgarc014/git-game