Current computers are fast enough to handle more than one user at a time. So I started the project to setup my workstation to support two seats, one for me and one for my gf. Tasks: Two concurrent Xorg sessions both with one keyboard, one mouse, and two monitors Separate audio for both seats Auto […]
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Problem: an android phone is loosing battery very quickly. The battery settings don’t show any app, the display or other reasons for the battery drain. Discussion: I found out that the battery drain is only when connected to WLAN. Then I recognized that it only happens when connected to my WLAN. The mobile phone never sleeps when
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I had two or three system crashes on my Linux workstation after upgrading to a new mother board and CPU within some months. This is very unusual for me because stability is the main objective when I build a new a workstation. So I tried to find the reason. Some weeks ago I found this
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Problem: if you separate the management from the normal traffic on a switch you will usually configure the swtich via this mgmt vpn-instance and also backup and restore config files via this mgmt vpn-instance. But if you use the “backup startup-configuration to ..” it always tries to find the tftp server on the normal network Even after changing
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Problem: after installing linux kernel 4.11.1, the dkms package of the nvidia driver does not compile. You find some cryptic error message about ./Kbuild in /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/375.39/build/make.log Solution: I uninstalled the debian nvidia package and installed the newer driver from the NVidia homepage: aptitude remove nvidia-installer-cleanup ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.66.run After this upgrade nvidia and linux 4.11.1 works again Versions: before upgrade jessie
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I tested a Ubiquiti access point today. UAP-AC-Lite seems to be a very good and cheap access-point. When you take it out of the box and connect it to the network it gets an IP address using DHCP and waits for a configuration. In this mode it sends broadcasts to find a controller and listens on port
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Problem: Firefox 52 audio does not work without pulseaudio. Discussion: pulseaudio is a bloated audio daemon that often fails. In the last years, when ever audio failed on linux, the quickest solution was to uninstall pulseaudio. But the Firefox developers made the mistake to remove support for the underlying audio driver alsa, and insist on the middle
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Problem: A simple bgp upstream configuration. A small AS with one IP prefix wants to connect to its upstream using BGP. The BGP peerings are up. Sophos receives the expected routes from its upstream, but the upstream router does not receive the expected single prefix. Discussion: an outbound filter list is set to prevent sending other than the
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The list of TLS ciphers is changing quite rapidly, old ciphers are considered insecure, and new ciphers are added. When you configure a virtual server on an F5 you can add a TLS client profile, which means F5 is doing TLS to the client. I think this is a bit misleading because with “SSL client profile”
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Linux support from dell is still very poor. They still support only RedHat$ and SuSE$. But there are ways to check the Raid status of Dell server on debian. http://hwraid.le-vert.net/ is doing a good job in collecting information and building Debian style packages. Example: A Dell server “PowerEdge T130” with “LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS-3
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