Size matters, but …

May 25, 2014 less than 1 minute read

Size matters, but … resolution and image quality are as import.

Since I was diagnosed with diabetes I have eyes issues things are getting better recently but I still needs glasses for reading etc.

My “no smoking” Piggy Bank was fat enough for some “eye candy”. I bought a Dell UltraSharp U2713HM a 27 inch WQHD (2560x1440) IPS display.

Compared to the others screens I used to work with the image quality is amazing and the higher resolution give so much more space.

Dell 2713HM images

Convert PGS subtitles

May 11, 2014 less than 1 minute read

I own a western digital tv live 1st generation the user interface is a bit slow but it’s still a nice media player.

Unfortunately it’s unable to display PGS (blu-ray) subtitles.

I created a shell scripts (converPgsSub.sh) to convert the subtitles a mkv file so it’s possible to play it on my 5 year old wdlive.

convertPgsSub 1.0.0stable1 is available github:

https://github.com/stafwag/convertPgsSub

Have fun...

zfs on Fedora 20

January 14, 2014 7 minute read

With Fedora 20 being released a few weeks ago and no official zfsonlinux support for Fedora 20. It time to get zfs on linux working on Fedora 20.

Zfs on linux 2.6.2 required a custom DKMS package. Lucky the patches that were required for zfs on linux are already integrated into Fedora: http://negativo17.org/dkms-patches-for-zfs-on-linux-merged/

So lets try to build the rpm packages for Fedora 20 from the source.

Best Wishes 2014

January 1, 2014 less than 1 minute read

Best wishes 2014

bash saved my day

October 20, 2013 less than 1 minute read

I was creating an ugly quick-and-dirty script to setup the squid cache_dir automatically with puppet based on the diskspace and memory available.

When you are developing you sometimes forget to create backups and push it to git, and mistakes are around the corner.

Lucky bash saved my day!

$ ./create_cache_entries.sh  > create_cache_entries.sh 
-bash: ./create_cache_entries.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Text file busy
$ vi create_cache_entries.sh