wpa-supplicant is WPA supplicant for Linux, BSD with support for all major WPA version. However, being a user space demon it has performance issues resulting in lag spikes every few minutes. Switching to iNet Wireless Daemon (iwd) results in stabler ping times preferred in gaming and real time applications.

TumblThree is the code rewrite of TumblTwo, a free and open source Tumblr blog backup application, using C# with WPF and the MVVM pattern. It uses the Win Application Framework (WAF). It downloads photo, video, audio and text posts from a given tumblr blog.

TumblTwo is a downloader (crawler) for the Bloghoster Tumblr.com based on TumblOne. After supplying a url, the application will search and download all types of images and videos in a given resolution. It’s possible to download only tagged images and download simultaneously from multiple blogs and enqueue others.

I’ve got a new notebook, the Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E330 (Intel i3 31110M modell, around 500EUR), which is quite exact covered in in this review. I just wanted to add a few things I’ve noticed concerning Linux compatibility.

The POD HD Preset Tool can convert preset, setlist and bundles between different POD HD models without modifying their settings. Optionally, It also can mass change some settings of all presets, setlists, bundles like setting all amps to preamps or changing the microphone.

One thing thats annoying at my selfmade nas is, that the harddisk drives keep park thier heads. Any recent hdds do this to save power, and some systems even have motion detectors, that will park the head at forthcoming crashes, to prevent damage. WD offers a tool (WDIDLE3.exe) to increase the idle value till the head parks, or you can completely disable it. So, I’ve made a custom iso image of the recent UBCD (v5.03) with the WDIDLE3 from WD included. Read more in the article.

Over the last four days I migrated my Android contacts and calendar to my own Linux server. Read how to setup the open source exchange server Zarafa under Debian and sync it with you Android smartphone. More after the click.

I frequently run out of space and since notebook times have arrived, i was always shocked about the bad performance of external usb storage. With luck, i get around 10 to 12 mb/s. Finally intels dualcore atoms have arrived and seem to deliver enough bang for your bucks to hold up as storage and media streamer, plus passive cooled ..

All information outdated, nothing appropriate? Same here! The Jumpstart (freebsdish for PXE) Guide is from ‘05, and uses obsolete commands. Other HowTos need a functional FreeBSD system to create a customized image with bsd slices to push from the server (which is unnecessary), so, i wrote up my findings.