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I cope with my depression by finding distractions, and what better way to do that in the long run than by learning something new or rediscovering something I thought I’d forgotten? These are often small projects that can be completed in a few days or even a few hours. Sometimes I can’t sustain my interest, or unexpected costs come up that I hadn’t planned for, and then it’s over before it’s real...
Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes) were something of a precursor to the Internet. Back then, you would dial into such a system over a telephone line using a modem and terminal emulator to—for example—download files, exchange messages, or play simple arcade games. If you find this history interesting, I recommend the FidoPedia page as a starting point for further research; going into detail here wou...
Anyone who regularly administers Linux servers will find themselves repeatedly performing the same tasks to ensure the system is running as intended. When dealing with only a few systems, this is usually done directly via SSH, as the effort of maintaining dedicated remote management tools is rarely worthwhile. So why not simply create a script that executes quick commands and filters the output to...
Debian maintainers have long worked on Year 2038 compatibility and announced its completion with the release of Debian 13 (Trixie). This is based on the fact that Linux stores system time—and all date fields derived from it—as a signed 32-bit integer representing the number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970, at 00:00: 231 - 1 = 2.147.483.647
This works until January 19, 2038, at 03:14:0...
There are countless opinions on this subject; some contributions have attempted to cite measurable criteria to suggest an objective comparison, while others dripped with subjectivity in every sentence. However, unlike the scenario in my teaser image, this is not a single athletic competition but a multi-event contest with countless disciplines—events that, when repeated at different venues, yield...
It might seem complicated at first, but the actual installation of Linux Mint is actually simpler than that of Windows. In this case, however, we will not wipe the PC (or laptop) to run Linux Mint as the sole operating system; instead, we will set it up so that a boot menu appears when the computer starts, allowing us to choose between Windows and Linux Mint. While this approach is somewhat more c...
DI.Day
You have likely already heard of Digital Independence Day, an initiative that aims to highlight democracy-friendly digital alternatives to massive American monopolies on the first Sunday of every month. Fundamentally, however, it is about breaking free from dependencies and regaining ownership of your own data. While this is particularly relevant for government bodies a...
After upgrading to Proxmox Virtual Environment version 9.1.1, I noticed an error message from my startup script when logging in via SSH: /welcome.sh: 1: last: not found. The script displays key system parameters immediately after login—such as my last login time, which it retrieves from /var/log/wtmp using the last command—effectively acting as a dynamic MOTD (see output below). While that...
Wer eine alte Software, die ein altes Betriebssystem benötigt, weiterbetreiben möchte wird zunächst einmal eine virtuelle Maschine in einem Hypervisor in Betracht ziehen. Windows bringt in der Pro Variante einen mit (Hyper-V), Linux hat mit KVM auch einen an Board und wer die nicht nutzen kann oder möchte, hat die Wahl zwischen einigen Desktop Virtualisierern, die auch in den meisten Fällen...
Da ich immer mal wieder darauf verweise möchte ich hier einmal die Installation des Betriebssystems eines Raspberry Pi beschreiben. Dank des immer weiter entwickelten Raspberry Pi Imagers muss sich heute niemand mehr auf die Suche nach einem passenden Image für ihre/seine Revision des Pi begeben und anders als es die Überschrift suggeriert...
