selfoss: Self hosted alternative to Google Reader
Update: I switched to Tiny Tiny RSS, which already has far more features I wanted, I also blogged about my experiences. Since Google Reader announced that it is going down, lots of articles describing alternatives came up. I wanted to host my own RSS-Reader for some time so this was the final reason to do [...]
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Switch from Unity to XFCE
I tried using Unity since Ubuntu removed Gnome2. I don’t like Gnome3 so I stuck with Unity for quite some time, hoping I would get used to it. But I did not and bugs that hide the dock depending on uptime (Bug) really got me over the edge to look elsewhere. (I’m ashamed to admit I [...]
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Sluggish Ubuntu during disk I/O solved
I finally found a solution for the most annoying linux problem I had for years! TL;DR: System is now far more responsible during disk I/O with the lowlatency kernel, source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/131094/comments/390 I have a linux box (waxford) that is used as a home server for all my needs at home (media, file server, dev server, backup, [...]
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tsclient no more in Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10
If you have to connect to Windows machines from time to time and have been an Ubuntu user like me, you most probably have been using tsclient to connect to it. But what I missed during the upgrade a couple of weeks ago was the fact that the previous Ubuntu standard tsclient has been removed. [...]
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Netvault 8 & Ubuntu 10.04 64bit
Today I had to add a new server to our backup. It was the first 64bit installation of Ubuntu (10.04 LTS), because all the other virtual machines were still running 32bit. (Why? I cannot remember.) The backup system is a Netvault from BakBone, running on a Ubuntu 08.04 LTS 32bit. Two things I discovered today, [...]
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