Know-How / Wissenswertes

13 06 2016

mount -t btrfs -o compression=lzo /root/btrfs.img /mnt/btrfs or mount -t btrfs -o compression=zlib /root/btrfs.img /mnt/btrfs where lzo is faster. Useful commands for testing: dd if=/dev/zero of=btrfs.img bs=1M count=100 mkfs.btrfs ./btrfs.img mkfs.btrfs -O list-all mount -t btrfs -o compress=lzo ./btrfs.img /mnt/btrfs ATTENTION: the mount options for compression will ONLY be taken over from THE FIRST TIME […]

6 06 2016

tried printing Microsoft’s BingAds invoices with lp/cups. Result: prints blank pages 😉 Solution: run through imagemagick’s “convert”. gives a warning (see below), but works: ATTENTION: New, better solution (way faster!). The old solution stopped working (upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 und changed cups printer setup. can’t tell what exactly was breaking it): pdftk “$infile” output “$outfile” […]

4 06 2016

“Person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt person doing it.” –Chinese Proverb

25 05 2016

change the .po file using vi … then recompile .po to .mo, e.g. … msgfmt -cv -o de_DE.mo de_DE.po msgfmt -cv -o en_US.mo en_US.po

14 05 2016

install asterisk 13.9.x: apt-get install aclocal automake autoconf libsrtp-devel wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-13-current.tar.gz aclocal autoconf automake -a ./configure make make menuselect #make sure res_srtp is enabled! make install Asterisk TLS/ZRTP setup: Specifically for blink: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Secure+Calling+Tutorial install chan_dongle (hint: setting the branch “asterisk13” is crucial!): git clone -b asterisk13 https://github.com/oleg-krv/asterisk-chan-dongle.git cd asterisk-chan-dongle aclocal autoconf automake -a ./configure make […]

9 05 2016

Find out who’s behind almost 320,000 offshore companies and trusts from the Panama Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/

8 05 2016

https://localtunnel.me/ Localtunnel allows you to easily share a web service on your local development machine without messing with DNS and firewall settings. Localtunnel will assign you a unique publicly accessible url that will proxy all requests to your locally running webserver. You will receive a url, for example https://gqgh.localtunnel.me, that you can share with anyone […]

5 05 2016

https://www.flixbus.de/ https://megabus.com/ https://meinfernbus.de/ https://www.tirol-taxi.at/ https://www.postbus.de/

29 04 2016

http://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx