If you are using removable disks such as USB pendrives, USB harddisks or Firewire disks and would like to have them mounted under /media/drivename (which does happen automatically with Ubuntu), you might want to label them so they always show up with the same name instead of disk, disk-1 and so fourth. If you label a drive it will always …
Silenced Server Rack from Plywood
Back in the days when I was running my Sun Netra T1 Server pizza box I needed a place to put that baby. As it also was incredibly noisy I designed a server rack that would double as a simple sideboard. The basic idea was simple since the Netra drew in cool air in the front and exhausted warm air …
Digital Devices Cine CT V6 and MythTV – DVB-C with UPC Cablecom
Since my first MythTV system I relied on analog PAL TV. When digital TV was introduced by UPC Cablecom in Switzerland it was mandatory to use their cable box, all channels were encrypted. Now of course it would have been possible to use an IR blaster to control that unit and digitize the output of the set-top box. It took …
Lasagne Verde
Lasagne wie beim Italiener, alternativ auch vegetarisch