On one of my two sle11 machines i had a java exception which i could not explain.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Java compiler available
    org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.createCompiler(JspCompilationContext.java:229)
    org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:581)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:317)
    org …

Burning ISO image

wodim speed=16 dev=/dev/cdrw image.iso

Copy on-the-fly

genisoimage -R -T -V /dev/cdrom | wodim dev=/dev/cdrw

Blanking CDRW

wodim dev=/dev/cdrw blank=disk

If you want to use the NM (especially the nm-applet) in Gentoo or ArchLinux, you have to grant the user to access the NM. Therefor you create the following file

# cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla 
[nm-applet]
Identity=unix-group:plugdev
Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.*
ResultAny=yes …

GCC (4.5.3) flags for

* Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620
* Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920
* Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700

CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mssse3 -msse4.1 -msse4.2 -msse4 -mmmx"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu …

Sometimes its necessary/pleasanter to use the Acrobat Reader for some PDF files like forms...

Enable the multilib repository

# cat /etc/pacman.conf
[...]
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[...]
# pacman -Sy

Install necessary packages

# pacman -S lib32-libxml2 lib32-gtk2 lib32-gdk-pixbuf2

Maybe there are some more packages still missing on your system …

I've found a very nice tool pv ...

$ dd if=/dev/sda1 | pv | dd of=backup.img
359MB 0:00:05 [75.3MB/s] [    <=>                       ]

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http://www.theboyswentout.com

and

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The Art of Flight

Because libvirt self is using the qemu monitor to mange the guests, it is not available for the user. Since version 0.8.6 [1] its possbile to send a command throught libvirt to the monitor.

virsh qemu-monitor-command  

The problem is that you must use the QMP format to send …

aka Firefox, DNS lookups and IPv6 (under Arch)

Since my laptop is running with Arch, sometimes my Firefox makes me crazy when i'm trying to open a new page because it show a message like Looking up heise.de... for minutes !

After googling a few seconds i've found someting that …