This Could Be Living

When I tried to install JonDoFox on my Ubuntu box, I encountered this problem (and then had to copy the profile manually, which isn’t a big thing but I wondered why the script didn’t work for me):

./install_linux.sh: 73: Syntax error: "("…

If you’re experiencing problems while emerging Google Earth on Gentoo with a “Digest verification failed” error like this:

!!! Digest verification failed:
!!! /usr/portage/distfiles/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
!!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
!!! Got: 20554977
!!! Expected: 20277797

Try this “fix” (found on…

If you’re experiencing problems with the Beta of Adobe AIR for Linux or you’re on a non-rpm/deb system (e.g. Ubuntu, Redhat), then try this small tutorial to get it working (found at the Adobe Forums here, written by Ashutosh Sharma -…

I recently installed Flock (the social web browser) which was a huge step for me because I always stuck with my lovely, custom Firefox 2. But I’m a Web 2.0 Junky, so why not try out THE social web browser? I did it, and I loved it. Currently I’m using the Flock 2 Beta 1 (built on top of Firefox 3). Good performance, nice modifications and based on Firefox, which means you can install nearly all addons and themes you want to.

One thing was a disappointment: that you are not able to start custom / own sidebars. This box you tick when adding / editing a bookmark so it load’s in the sidebar. It simply wasn’t there. So I’m a huge sidebar fan (I even wrote an tutorial about it: Custom Firefox Sidebar HTML Page) and Flock wouldn’t be as great as it is when it hasn’t got the feature to load own sidebars.

How to do it?

Rather simple WORKAROUND: Bookmarks which should load in the Firefox sidebar have activated that “Load this bookmark in the sidebar” box. Export the bookmark’s html file (with the sidebar bookmarks) and import it into Flock. That’s it. Click onto your sidebar bookmark and it should load in the sidebar.

To nearly every heavy-computer user I talk to I sooner or later recommend giving OpenBSD a try. The advantages and possibilities are endless and will increase the Computer experience a lot.

Before I switched to Linux on my desktop I already tried out OpenBSD on my second PC. It was a huge difference to everything I knowed and learned before. But it was (and still is) an interesting and worthwhile experience.
At home, my OpenBSD Server / Router / whatever is used for this purposes:

• Router
• Firewall (pf)
• Web-Server (chrooted, built-in OpenBSD)
• Database-Server (MySQL)
• Music Player Daemon
• Download Manager (MLDonkey, HTTP / FTP Downloads)
• SSH Daemon

So this tutorial / how-to is for everyone who want to start with OpenBSD. It’s a step-by-step guide to get into this wonderful new world of computing. For people with no or low shell experience the first time/s could be hard (yeah, this could be living - finally I could use this phrase ;) ). I wouldn’t call me an expert or even an advanced user, but I’m using OpenBSD for over 2 years now on a nearly daily basis. Human make errors (OpenBSD not :) ) so if you have found any errors or suggestions, please leave them in the comments - thanks!

Lately I saw this post at the Lifehacker Book Contests Winner series which seemed to be very interesting & useful. Unfortunately there isn’t any code of this nice custom HTML page for the Firefox sidebar - only some interesting looking screenshots.
So I decided to make my own one and believe me: the possibilities are endless!

Here some features:

• A nice clock ;)
• Important Links (Daily Pages, GTD, Webmaster)
• Google & Wikipedia Search boxes (Englisch / German)
• LEO Translation (English -> German)
• Whois Lookup
• DNS Lookup
• IP Country Lookup
• Notes / Reminders to yourself (E-Mail, via FormMail)

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Since TrueCrypt released version 5 of it’s great, cross-plattform crypting program, linux users have now the ability to use a nice GUI to crypt & mount their disks / partitions / containers. But the GUI isn’t bug-free and soon after the 5.0 release there were some updates. When I’m writing this article the current version is TrueCrypt 5.1a (released March 17, 2008) and it’s still only possible to create FAT partitions / containers with the GUI. But they updated the command line interface and you can create e.g. ext3 crypted devices there (and, in my opinion, it’s even faster on the command line).
So this guide should go through the hole TrueCrypt 5.x progress, from building it from source to creating a crypted partition:

1. Build TrueCrypt 5 from source
2. Create crypted partition (with password & keyfile)

Please keep in mind: This tutorial is NORMALLY compatible to newer versions !

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Now, after the 3-month ICQ/MSN/E-Mail on the go for free has ended, I think it’s time for a review of my handy little Ogo CT-25E (in most cases I saw “Ogo CT-25” without the ‘E’). Bought in december 2007, the price of 99 EUR and the 3-months-for-free offer seemed so persuasive to me that I decided to buy one. And I have to note: straight after, three friends of mine bought one, too :)

But what is this Ogo? In the US it seems not to be very widespread - but in europe, especially in germany, austria and switzerland, there’s an increasing community of Ogo users. […]

Found this recently on bsdforen.de - a OpenBSD Live-CD and even for the newest version 4.2, this is stunning! Big respect for the author of this, visit his page @

The site of the OpenBSD Live-CD can be found here:

And, last but not least, he wrote a How-To for making your own OpenBSD Live-CD, but it’s currently only available in german (I will work on an english translation soon)

The goal of this text is to configure and install ircd-hybrid-7.2.2 & hybserv 1.9.3 irc-services on OpenBSD 4.0 in a chrooted environment. Additionally we will use challenge for ircd-hybrid, which will give opers more security during authentication.
Keep in mind that this tutorial is NORMALLY compatible to newer versions !