Author: halfgaar

http://www.halfgaar.net/

Halfgaar is Wiebe. Wiebe is a contributing author on this weblog. He also has a lot of stuff (such as long, in-depth articles) on his personal website.

Enabling mplayers multithreading for HD video.

Certain codecs support multithreaded decoding, but you have to configure it, though. You can do that by adding this to your mplayer.conf: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 weeks ago, on February 28, 2010, at 15:02 | No comments

Creating an Unreal Tournament 99 server in Linux

(Post edited to reflect the steps required for the 451 version of the server, which has some crucial bug fixes, among which a working webadmin.) Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 weeks ago, on February 27, 2010, at 14:02 | No comments

Default e-mail addresses for domains

Sometimes automated services or people need to contact some domain administrator for a certain domain. There are a couple of addresses that should be present by default. Google uses these addresses to notify you when they put you on their malware blocklist: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 weeks ago, on February 22, 2010, at 20:02 | No comments

Preventing syntax errors with old shell scripts

I was trying to install Unreal Tournament GOTY on one of my Linux machines. I downloaded and ran the script ut-install-436-GOTY.run but I got this error: Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 weeks ago, on February 14, 2010, at 17:02 | 4 comments

Saving and loading iptables rules on Debian

For some reason, Debian can't do "/etc/init.d/iptables save". So, we have to fix something ourselves. I used this article as source, which also has some useful comments. Apparently, the iptables initscript used to exist... Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on February 03, 2010, at 14:02 | No comments

Installing Windows on Xen

Just a a kind of bookmark, I used this blog post as a base to find out how to install Windows as a DomU on Xen. I might at some point reconstruct my steps, but for now this link is all... (judging by the URL the blog won't exist much longer, but oh well...)

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By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on February 01, 2010, at 00:02 | 1 comment

Installing Xen with Lenny guest on a Debian machine

This will explain how to install the paravirtualization software Xen on Debian. It is more involved than KVM, but more elegant if you can setup up a dedicated machine to run virtual machines (in fact, KVM on Debian seems quite clunky). I use this Debian wiki page as base. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on January 31, 2010, at 20:01 | No comments

Xen console

To get the console of your Linux guests on a Xen machine, type "xm console ". Then to exit, press "ctrl-]". When in screen, do "ctrl-a, a, ctrl-]".

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By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on January 31, 2010, at 20:01 | No comments

Configuring a static IP address on Debian

This is a simple netconfig for a static IP address on a Debian machine. In /etc/network/interfaces, replace your eth0 (or whatever) with this: Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on January 31, 2010, at 20:01 | No comments

Debian volatile: keep fast moving packages working on Debian stable

The concept of Debian stable is kind of nice, since you don't have to be affraid of upgrade breakages all the time, but it can also be annoying, because things like spamfilters and virusscanners are fast-moving and you often end up with old versions of those. That is why the Debian volatile project exists. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on January 30, 2010, at 12:01 | 2 comments