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Starting a text-based program on a headless box at boot time

Imagine yourself in the following situation:
You have a “headless” (this means: without a monitor attached) server that boots nicely, starts all the services you configured, like dns, ntp, nfs, samba, httpd, mysql, etc. But – since it has processing power left and stays on 24×7, you decide that it could do something extra that you [...]

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inadyn, a Dynamic DNS client for Linux

Whoever has an ISP that regularly changes your IP address, knows the difficulties of accessing your computer at home from remote locations. If the IP address changes all the time, how can you access your home system through a browser, ssh, etc.
There are actually several solutions for this, like DynDNS, where you can register a [...]

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New package for LDraw_data

I built a new package with LDraw_data for Slackware, containing the latest (200903) library from ldraw.org. Check my site for the pre-built while the SlackBuild is in pending.

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Blogging…

I never wanted to start a blog, for several reasons, but mainly because:

I do not have the time to write regular posts
I really do not have too many interesting facts to share with the world

But it seems that nowadays everyone is blogging all over the world. My wife – who really isn’t into computers that [...]

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