Ever wondered how you can build your own kernel with make-kpkg so that changes in the changelog will be preserved and your revision number from the changelog will be used? The answer is: echo > debian/official The rationale is here.. Read on

Last version version 0.32 Thu Jan 25 11:00:03 CET 2001 This programm is used to monitor modem usage over time (allthough it can easily be changed to monitor any other ressource). It generates an image showing modem/ressource usage over time, which can be incorporated in an automagically updated HTML page like this: Analog ISDN Modems are counted from top to bottom. A colored bar represents a modem being active. The number on the vertical axis is the tty-port-number so you have to add 1 to have the corresponding serial port-number that is the number of the modem. Read on

Problem An ISP was facing the situation, that many of his clients would maintain their websites themselves and the webteam would quite often have to apply some finishing touch, corrections etc. Unfortunately the uploaded files did not have very useful permissions to perform that task. Each time the webteam had to su, chmod and chgrp, which was a bit of a risky thing to do, especially since they were not knowledgeable about UNIX… Read on

Here’s my work on the https method for apt. Encrypted connection and authentification through certificates works. This is a pre-final version. If there will be changes then only from suggestions or criticism by other people, particulary apt’s author. Feedback wellcome. Enjoy! apt_0.5.4-0.8.diff.gz apt_0.5.4-0.8_i386.deb apt-utils_0.5.4-0.8_i386.deb libapt-pkg-dev_0.5.4-0.8_i386.deb libapt-pkg-doc_0.5.4-0.8_all.deb Example apt.conf Read on

A JPEG lossless mode en/decoder. ljpeg_1.0-1.diff.gz ljpeg_1.0-1.dsc ljpeg_1.0-1_i386.changes ljpeg_1.0-1_i386.deb ljpeg_1.0.orig.tar.gz Read on