Laminate

Well we’ve used to have an old red carpet in our flat. Now i’m replacing it with laminate. Here are a few pictures

lunar moonbase cache db

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My ST Hobby

well I’m a Star Trek fan and so I’m collecting some stuff, for example the german card game which got released around 96′ by fleer skybox/modern graphics distribution. I’m missing ca. 100 cards. Just bought 45 booster packs and the starter pack (until today I wasn’t able to find the starter pack in german, only [...]

Network Trouble with the Acer Aspire One D250

Sometimes when booting my AAO the Network doesn’t work; The WLAN-Controller: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev c0) seems to have some trouble with recent Linux Kernels. Sometimes i get errors like DMA not supported, switching to PIO Mode. Usually i need to reboot to use the wlan controller then. However, there’s a work arround, you [...]

WD Green Discs and the problem in Linux (Load Cycle Count)

While many people report that WD Green Discs are “bad” i wouldn’t say so. I’d say they’re the best SATA drives I’ve ever had – even with the problematic load-cycle-count. But let’s take a closer look at these discs.

Linux and Software-Raid

Hello, i’m using software raid in linux for some years now. Recently when playing around a bit i found out a few interesting things, which i don’t want to hide from ya. However, at some parts of my article you might lose data – So always do a backup, and look up everything in the [...]

Software Raid, Superblock, Meta-Data and Autodetection on Boot

You’re used to your raid beeing autodetected at startup? You’ve build a new raid-array which you’re using for / (root) and you’re wondering that it’s not booting, while you can mount it fine? You’re getting messages that the root filesystem couldn’t be found nor that it could detect any raid array? Join the fun!

Setting up ZFS with 3 out of 4 discs (raidz)

Hey, The usual problem, if you want to set up for example a software raid 5 – You got only 3 discs, you’re first creating the raid array with only 2 and one failed disk. Later then you add the third disk. Something similar is also possible with ZFS using a sparse file. In the [...]

Replacement for Zones, and ZFS in Linux

I was using OpenSolaris ago some years, i really liked how stable the system was, though due to a few reasons i switched back to linux. For example due to missing energy saving for my CPU (Which is supported in Windows, FreeBSD and Linux, just not in OSOL), missing drivers for my DVB-T Card and [...]

Some Computer Pics

Hey ho, bought some new things, because my old one isn’t working as it should anymore. And so it was time for a new box. I don’t want to buy a new pc in the next years, so this one is somewhat special. Update, 24th May: Added some pictures