Posts under ‘General’

I’ve stumbled over some ARC case enabling labelled zones in OpenSolaris (from Trusted Extensions) to access the X11 server in the global zone “natively” using Unix domain sockets instead of TCP/IP or other jokes. It seems that mounting the X11 socket with the loopback filesystem driver into your zone does the job quite well and [...]

After having played around with that Aiptek graphics tablet from my dad, I’ve decided I also need one. I’ve ordered a Wacom Bamboo Fun medium, it was delivered today, and let me tell you…

Then again, I’ve never really cared about drawing until now. Geometric shape doodles while bored at school maybe, but that’s it. First [...]

The new bi-yearly release is out. Go download at http://www.opensolaris.com/
A 700MB Live CD with installer, based on build snv_101, more stable, more hardware support, with more applications on the repository.

When I first met my new landlord, he seemed to make a good and honest impression onto me. The apartment I visited also looked pretty great, while still furnished. He also warned me that the current tenant is a bit moody due to ostensible relationship problems. Which turned out to be very possible, since her [...]

What’s this trend lately of various sites claiming to have done “reviews”, that are essentially just parrotting the related press release with some slightly different words?
For days now I’m trying to find actual real world pictures of the upcoming Logitech Illuminated Keyboard, yet whatever exclusion search I try, I keep running into these silly “reviews”, [...]

Figured I finally move everything over to a cooler domain and as well a dotcom one. I considered moving over to “Combat Pretzel” as new nickname, but nostalgy keeps me from doing it (as usual). But I took this as opportunity to leave the old crap where it is right now and start over. Easier [...]