You may know this situation: You have seen a shell command, looked in the man page but you are no really sure what it does? [Read More]

Sometimes it is needed to recreate the used ssh host keys and this can be done quite easy on a Debian based system. [Read More]

On my work linux machine I am using Ubuntu with KDE. As the new 4.11 was released I thought it would be a good idea to update my current KDE installation. As a long-term Gentoo user it needed some more steps. [Read More]

The company I work for has designed a custom i.MX6 based board and I am the guy who does the board bring-up. For me the i.MX6 platform is a very good choice as support for the hardware in u-boot and the linux kernel is quite good. So it should not... [Read More]

In some rare cases I need to debug some networking protocols and my target of interest is NTP. I am debugging an issue where (maybe) NTP sets the current time backwards about two hours. My first candidate to look deeper is ntpd. [Read More]