urxvt (rxvt-unicode) is the terminal emulator I tend to use with X. Since I’m really used to be working with shells through the Windows program PuTTY, I try to get urxvt to resemble PuTTY as much as possible.
Bash Completion with Debian
The tab completion for bash provided by the bash-completion package in Debian annoys me. I think it’s bloated and it behaves quite unexpectedly. I could always uninstall it, but what if I don’t have root access or if there’s other users on the machine who wants the package installed?
Bitcoin mining…
Last summer I spent some time (and money for electricity >_
Google Chrome Incognito Keeper
This is something for you who prefer using Google Chrome in Windows with Incognito mode activated.
Datacenter@home: Part 14
There has really only been one important thing missing with my setup of servers. KVM switching.
NIC bonding
I wanted to boost the available throughput between my two identical servers. Until now there has only been a single 1 Gbps link between the servers.
Datacenter@home: Part 13
I found a warning sign at work which was about to be thrown away. I put it on the door to my wicked datacenter instead.
Datacenter@home: Part 12
For a long time I’ve had a rack mountable cooling unit lying around. It turned out to be pretty nice.
Datacenter@home: Part 11
Previous unfortunate events led me to buy some new servers, which now have been mounted in the rack enclosure.
Enhancing backplane cooling
I’ve got hold of two second hand hot-swappable SATA backplanes. The previous owner had tried modifying the cooling of these units, but unfortunately he wasn’t very successful.