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Author: halfgaar
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:
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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.)
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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:
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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:
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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...
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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...)
Read More »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.
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Xen console
To get the console of your Linux guests on a Xen machine, type "xm console
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:
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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.
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