Monthly Archives: March 2008
Why do people laugh at creationists?
A friend told me to look at the “Why do people laugh at creationists?” videos on YouTube. It’s amazing how these creationists (aka Intelligent Design) can be stupid by mixing religion and science. The scary thing about these people, is … Continue reading
Geeky comics
A guy pointed out a very funny and geeky website on the fedora-fr forum today: xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language. Prepare yourself to lose the next 2h of your life on this website
rsync on a Linksys NAS200 NAS
Because the price of electricity rose by about 20% in my part of Switzerland during the last months, I was searching for a low-power backup solution for some servers. The Linksys NAS 200 seemed to be the perfect solution: a … Continue reading
Fedora 9 Beta
A simpe and short post to announce that the Beta of Fedora 9 is out, grab the ISO’s here and read the release notes here
Unix Toolbox
I have seen this link on a forum: http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml It’s called “Unix Toolbox”; a page listing the most used UNIX commands, classified per category: System, Processes, File System, Network, SSH SCP, VPN with SSH, RSYNC, SUDO, Encrypt Files, Encrypt Partitions, … Continue reading
Print to PDF in Fedora
A very useful and nice thing in Apple’s OS X, is that you can print to a PDF file from any program. This can also be achieved under Windows with PDFCreator. At its core, it’s “nothing more” than a virtual … Continue reading
/dev/null 2>&1 explained to humans
If you ever made a cron job, or a script that executes something and produces an output in the console, you are probably familiar with the fact that piping it to /dev/null 2>&1 can silence it But do you really … Continue reading
OpenJDK everywhere soon
This morning, I stumbled across an interesting post about OpenJDK, the Open Source implementation of Sun’s Java JDK. It should soon be available as a simple to install rpm in Fedora, which is GREAT news for all the Java developers … Continue reading
Getting PostgreSQL to work in Fedora
Note: updated for Fedora 9 A very frustrating thing in Fedora, is installing PostgreSQL 8 via yum. It all starts in a very nice way: yum install postgresql postgresql-server and yum install phpPgAdmin if you want a nice web interface … Continue reading
Re-opening
Hi all, After a few months, I finally decided to convert the old alphatek.info (which was in French) to a more personal blog about Linux. I often come across interesting articles and howtos when I have to solve problems for … Continue reading