Sometimes it might be necessary to mount Linux file systems under Windows.

This can be done very easily using a tool named "DiskInternals Linux Reader". This tool is able to mount the following file system types in read-only mode:

• ext2/3/4
• reiserFS/reiser4
• HFS(+)
• UFS2

Be noticed that the tool only mounts …

Today Red Hat released the fourth update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. After 8 months there's also another update that brings a lot of fixes and new features.

The Release Notes für RHEL 6.4 are, as usual, very considerably - I personally think, that the following updates are specially mentionable:

Kickstart

Using th …

It is possible that a system update for a Google Nexus device can't be found and - according to this - downloaded, even if the update was definitely released.

A reason for this issue might be the "Google Services Framework" - it forces an error while communicating with the Google update servers. A solution …

Using Kerberos it is possible to "kerberize" services and applications to enhance security. Compared to classical username/password authentification Kerberos uses time-limited tickets which are applied per-user for authentificating against services and applications.

In combination with SSH the encrypted …

On a recent business trip I was annoyed by the heavy weight of my Thinkpad Tablet - this and the badly customized Android distribution by Lenovo forced me to have a look for alternatives. Some days ago I could play a few minutes with the Nexus 7 of a colleague - I was amazed by the device.

In short - I decided to order …

If you want to have a short overview about which files of installed RPM packages has been altered, you probably don't want to deal with AIDE - a short script should be enough:

 1#!/bin/sh
 2for i in $(rpm -qa|tr "n" " ")
 3do
 4        RESULT="$(rpm -vV $i)"
 5        if [ "$?" != …

Especially on new installed systems it is possible  that the manpage database wasn't initialized, yet. You can identify this if whatis / man -k doesn't "find anything":

1# man -k man
2man: nothing appropriate

Under HP-UX the index is created using the following command:

1# catman -m

Under RHEL there is a tool …

I had almost every Sense ROM (preferring Sense 4) on my HTC Sensation for testing purposes. I wasn't satisfied will all these ROMs by now - there was always something which annoyed me.

The most ROMs with Sense 4 look nice but have a poor battery life and/or casual stutters while using the home screens. After installing …