Hack Using qemu userspace emulation to build Debian packages for other architectures In my attempt to avoid overloading my poor new Pinebook (some cheap arm64 laptop) with builds, I tried setting up a build environment on my more powerful x86-64 based machines. For consistency I'm
software "bad listen address format" docker error on Debian (and elsewhere) I just encountered an issue on my Debian sid ("unstable") system where docker wouldn't start due to incompatibilities between its components. On my search on the net, I found various proposals
linux Debian sid, GRUB2, lvm, luks One of my systems is running Debian sid with an encrypted root device, incl encrypted /boot. Encryption is unlocked using a passphrase in GRUB2 (before the menu is shown). Since GRUB can't pass
linux Random Hack: Identify the mid-point between two git commits Francis asked on irc://irc.freenode.net/#coreboot how to find the mid-point between two commits, like what git bisect is doing – just without git bisect. So here's a bash function that does
linux Random Hack: Identify services that use outdated libraries on Linux With the GnuTLS bugfixes recently, I faced the issue to restart services that depended on it: After updating the library, daemons still run the old version until restarted. I think I've seen this
Hack Random Hack: Calculations in GNU make I built an efficient algorithm for decimal addition in GNU make last year. While I won't vouch for its production quality (on the other hand: why not?), it's too cute a hack to
software Freie strdupa Implementierung Ohne Gewährleistung auf Funktionalität oder irgendwas, aber nachdem mir heute jemand gesagt hat, dass er einfach strdupa mit strdup #define'd, dachte ich mir, suche ich lieber mal fix nach einer leak-freien Lösung. #define
