Process Migration Using CRIU it is possible to checkpoint/save/dump the state of a process into a set of files which can then be used to restore/restart the process at a later point in time. If the files from the checkpoint operation are transferred from one system to another and then used to restore the process, […]

This month’s come together will be held on 2016-05-04, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

Having read about using syslinux as a boot-loader for virtual machines I tried to replace grub2 on one of the Fedora 24 virtual machines I am using with syslinux: Not completely knowing what to do I did: dnf install syslinux-extlinux.x86_64 /sbin/extlinux –install /boot/extlinux/ The I tried to create a configuration file using grubby: grubby –extlinux […]

This month’s come together will be held on 2016-03-30, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

My son got a tiptoi. I was interested how it works and a little bit of googling lead me to this page. It provides a tool to create your own pages, books, adventures or puzzles. I gave it a try and this is the result. result of 1st try with tttol It does not look […]

As mentioned by Alex the link was down. Two things happened: The raspberry pi was not running anymore. The Internet connection was down. For the second problem I don’t have a solution yet. For the not running raspberry pi there might be one: The internal watchdog of the raspberry pi. It can be activated by […]

This month’s come together will be held on 2016-03-02, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

After a long break I’ve started logging the PVIs in my father’s house again. The main reason for reactivating the scripts was that the two PVIs have shown different yield numbers at the end of the day. Further investigation has shown that the internal clock of one of the PVIs was wrong, so at around […]

I’ve taken some pictures and short clip click on image for gallery of the parrots living in the tree in front of my house.

After not even switching my IGEL for a very long time I finally got it running using thinstation and the service tsomatic to build the files instead of doing it on my own.  Unfortunately it takes longer to start and only run ssh than the desktop PC I own. Initially the idea was to have […]

This month’s come together will be held on 2016-02-03, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

The latest MirrorManager release (0.6.1) which is active since 2015-12-17 in Fedora’s infrastructure has a few additional features which provide insights into the mirror network usage. The first is called statistics. It gives a daily overview what clients are requesting. It analysis the metalink and mirrorlist accesses and draws diagrams. Each time the local yum […]

This month’s come together will be held on 2016-01-13, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

This month’s come together will be held on 2015-12-02, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

This month’s come together will be held on 2015-11-04, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

For some reason the support for init.d and thereby userinit.d has been removed from CyanogenMod starting with CM12. Unfortunately it is not easy to re-activate the functionality, even more so if you want the change to survive future CM updates. So I decided to create a trivial app that will simply execute run-parts on the […]

This month’s come together will be held on 2015-10-07, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).