Script to disable the OOM killer on certain processes
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My LinuxSampler set-up was having odd crashes lately. Took a while to figure to they were caused by the OOM killer killing the process. (Granted, not weird if you only have 256MB of RAM…)
Quite annoying, I do not want that process to die (nor the “jackd” process).
After having stumbled upon this page about the OOM [...]
NVIDIA nvagp/agpgart module woes…
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So I was trying to optimise a laptop for audio playback and wanted the NVIDIA driver to use the its own NvAGP rather than the linux supplied ‘agpgart’ module. The reason being that the performance may be better, and I have this obsession with optimisation…
This wasn’t as easy as it seemed as for [...]
Verichip RFID clonable (thus totally unsafe), despite the company’s promises
I just heard from somebody that on HOPE, a presentation was given how easily the Verichip RFID chip implant can be cloned (thus identities stolen, people posing as other people getting easier because nowadays, somehow, everything must be digital or something.
Basically, the work is done by this device, called the proxmark3, that;
[it] can do almost [...]
Hardware: SmartJoy Dual Plus USB adapter
Yesterday, the SmartJoy Dual Plus USB adapter arrived by snail-mail. I ordered that thing so I could use the good old PS2 controllers in stead of buying a new set of joysticks to play games on the PC.
The adapter with 2 pads plugged in. If you’re wondering about the semi-transparent white plastic wrapping around the
controllers’ [...]
OpenOffice 2.0 kept crashing when selecting a font…
…and after it seemed that it kept happening after installing the latest 2.0.2-version, I had to look further.
The stupid thing was — if I logged into my gf’s machine (the machine having issues), and set the DISPLAY variable to point to my own X-server — nothing bad happened, no matter what font I selected! Weird, [...]
HOWTO: Extracting SNMP data from an Alcatel Speed Touch Home without SNMP support
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My ISP gave me this crappy modem, an Alcatel Speed Touch Home. Additionally, I recently started playing around with Zabbix, which nicely supports SNMP. I can create nice statistics from the machines in my network, including nice graphs and stuff. Well, almost all. Not the modem, because it does not support SNMP.
So, I needed a [...]
Utilities: alcatell
I just created the page about ‘alcatell‘ — a utility born out of necessity. This utility enables one to easily extract information from the Alcatel Speed Touch Home modem — a piece of crap hardware that doesn’t support SNMP.
I created this utility so I could configure a UNIX host to act as a ‘proxy’ for [...]
Post-Mortem Data Destruction
I just posted my first article on Darknet about `Post-Mortem Data Destruction‘. This article roughly details a system for detecting the event of your death and destroying all your private information when this happens.
Post Mortem Data Destruction, Darknet, Navaho Gunleg
