Linux on Brabbel

Running “Steam for Linux” on Debian Wheezy

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:20:46 +0000

Steam for Linux is here! At least in a usable beta version. And quite some games are already available for Linux from Steam.

But still installing steam is a little tricky for Linux. So some repackaging is required to get it running. But there is a good guide available (although a little techie) here:

Resolving LVM: Unrecognised LVM device type 259

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:42:22 +0000

Trying to create a md raid1 device for 2 phyiscal 1TB disks failed unexpectedly with a strange (and very undescriptive error, that is only revealed when running with the verbose option (-vvv): Wiping internal VG cache /dev/md0p2: Skipping: Unrecognised LVM device type 259 Device /dev/md0p2 not found (or ignored by filtering).

Debian an Dell Latitude D830

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:16:53 +0000

The Dell Lattitude D830 is a quite capable business notebook. While the notebook itself is not considered high-end it still allows for good configurations. A definite downside is the battery which lasted only for 1 year and had to be replaced with a new battery pack (not part of warrenty of course).

Browsers benchmarked on Linux

Tue, 12 May 2009 23:20:57 +0000

The system itself is a Dell D830 laptop with a nvidia NV135 chip and an Intel Core2 Duo T7500 CPU with 2GB RAM. For actual benchmarking the new futuremark paecekeeper browser benchmark has been put to use.

Setting up your own simple debian repository

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:31:08 +0000

In the process of getting a debian repostiry ready to allow easy installtion with debian’s apt, a small series of posts are going to be created here. So here is the initial post describing a very simple debian repository layout.

Howto resize a qcow2 disk image

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:21:32 +0000

Resizing of the file-based qcow2 format for handling disk images is possible by performing the resize on a different format and use the conversion capabilities of qemu-img.

Building proprietary ATI fglrx driver on Debian Lenny x86_64

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:47:50 +0000

To build the ATI proprietary driver (version 8.8, being reported as 8.522) on Debian Lenny 2.6.26-1-amd64 (probably the same for testing/unstable) on x86_64 I ran into 2 subtle problems which requried a little tricking to get the driver compiled and loaded. The following issues apply only to the x86_64 version of linux.

System backup vs. system images

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:34:11 +0000

Creating a system image is IMHO different from creating a level 0 backup.

A backup is destined for the one host it was taken from, no other. MBR, partitioning, filesystems will all stay the same. Whereas a system image is used to multiply an installation to different hosts, with probably different partitioning, eventually different mount points. Differences of configuration is not part of this post, so yes, there are definitly different setting for network, hostname, …, but that has to be handled after restoring the image.

We got hacked…

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:16:58 +0000

Strange, but true. Our new server got hacked recently by some unknown folks. The downside of this incident was, that we had visitors from some unethnical hacking groups, which abused the server for UDP attacks and spam mailing. I cleared the remaining 18000+ mails in the deferred mail queue yesterday.

vServer move to fx7.org

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:40:57 +0000

As always it seemed to be just a view hours work to move all services from the old mos.at hosted vserver to the new dedicated server owned by Duke. So we join efforts on that front and are going to share the server for all our vhosts and services.