https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-06-03T23:27:20+00:00 https://old.andunix.net/ https://old.andunix.net/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2013-03-03T14:10:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2011/project_pda Project PDA I'm currently working on a project called 'PDA'. PDA stands for “Personal Digital Assistant”. I used several PDAs over the last two decades, from Sharp, Psion, Palm and others. But they all were just Personal Datastorages. I always missed the text/html 2014-01-27T14:38:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2014/simulating_slow_network_connections_with_trickle Simulating slow network connections with trickle You can limit the downlink of a Firefox browser to 512 KB/s with this command: trickle -d 512 /usr/bin/firefox -no-remote -P test More informations can be found on these pages: * trickle Homepage * Trickle in the Ubunutuuser Wiki (german) text/html 2010-05-17T07:55:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2010/how_create_moveable_vm_virtualbox How To Create a Moveable VM with VirtualBox VirtualBox works good when you use the same VMs all the time. It organizes the disk images in one directory and the configuration files in another. It kees a record of all known disk images and virtual machines. text/html 2013-03-12T21:41:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2010/drupal_reverse_proxy Drupal: Reverse Proxy skybow wrote the very helpful article “Drupal via HTTPS/SSL Proxy Server (shared certificates)”. While following his advice, I found some improvements. To reduce the amount of editing and to increate the reusability, I substituted * www.example.com with $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] and text/html 2009-08-11T10:16:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/opensolaris_virtualbox_mount_shared_folder OpenSolaris / VirtualBox: Mount Shared Folder To mount a shared folder in a OpenSolaris guest in VirtualBox, you have to install the Guest Additions and then mount the file system type vboxfs. The Usage is: mount -F vboxfs <share> <mountpoint> text/html 2009-04-27T11:30:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/project_idea_wikitable Project Idea: WikiTable I'm using wikis a lot but every wiki I tried so far lacks support for tables. The wikis are able to show tables, but building a table using lots of pipes “|” sucks. What I want to develop (or learn that such a this already exists) is a small application which creates tables which then can be included in wiki pages. text/html 2010-04-21T08:17:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2010/memory_usage_solaris_container_zone Memory Usage of a Solaris Container (Zone) Last week one of my servers ran out of RAM and Swap. Shame on me for not monitoring that, but it's now. As the server is running several zones, my first question was: Which zone is eating up my RAM? So, here are the commands I used.