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A few words about developing PHP Applications or Scripts

When I started with PHP 10 years ago, I was just trying to get a simple guestbook working. During time I’ve coded an IRCD (just for the fun of it and to learn about the rfc) in PHP and I made several other things. Sooner or later you stumble over OOP and one day you’re [...]

Netboot Installation

Hey, looking for useful documentation about netboot in Linux is quite difficult nowadays; of the various guides I found on the net only 1 was useful (1 of 30) … No wonder that I came to the conclusion to write my own one… The goal is, to have a central fileserver which does nfs+dhcp+tftp to [...]

Boot times

In my last blog I wrote about optimizing the boot-times using runit and a special kernel. As of today I switched to systemd in Lunar Linux and I’m using connman for networking; Let’s take a look at the boot-times again…

Lunar Linux: Systemd & Connman

this article has moved to my dev blog

Lunar Linux: Cookbook – Or: How to install.

There are always some users unable to install Lunar Linux. Usually I’m telling them “you’re doing something wrong then” – I know, this isn’t very helpful, but on the contrary we’re mainly talking about users using unsupported optimizations. And as long as a user thinks he knows more or better than a developer, a developer [...]

Lunar Linux: Getting rid of hal

this article has moved to my dev blog

Datarecovery, Part1

Back ago some time, when my old blog was around i wrote to articles about datarecovery and possible scenarious. Due to the move/update i haven’t moved those articles because i wanted to work a bit on them. Now as i had to recover a few things from a harddisc i thought it’s time to write [...]

imageSorting 0.6

Some people might remember my imageSorting script, which I wrote for data-recovery scenarious, in whose you end up with millions of folders or images without filenames (so nearly impossible to sort em). My imageSorting script tries to sort them by year/extension/size where as size is “large, medium, small, thumb”. Today i updated the script…

Ubuntu my first experience

Recently I wrote an Article about my first experience with Kubuntu, which is, as i understood, Ubuntu + KDE. This time, I’m taking a look at Ubuntu.

MySQL Coalesce again

Heydiho. Ago some time I wrote a small document about MySQL’s COALESCE usage. Today I was asked to help with such a construct for a similar usage-scenario. Here’s the result: