Not everybody wants his contacts and calendar entries synchronized to the Google Cloud - I'm also one of those persons who prefer synchronizing sensitive data locally.

With HTC ROMs you can use HTC Sync for this - for me this have been the only reason why I used this ROMs for a long time.

But what to do if you don't …

Since I rooted my smartphones I tried a lot of ROMs and finally always ended with Sense ROMs. The main reason for this was the HTC Sync tool which enabled me to synchronize contacts and tasks with my local Outlook.

HTC Sync is only compatible with HTC ROMs - Android stockroms are not supported. I found no other tool …

Currently I'm implementing a IPSec tunnel between my and another flat. After my first plan, using an already existing Raspberry Pi as IPSec gateway, fizzled after plently of failed tries I decided to implement a router-to-router solution.

The center of my network is a ALIX.2D13 which is used as IPCop to offer DNS, NTP …

It is possible that the DELL OMSA inventory collector crashes on 64-bit RHEL systems with the following error message:

1# /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/invcol
2/opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/invcol: ./invcol: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

What a pity! This issue needs to be fixed if you want to …

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 …

Reading the World Wide Name (WWN) / World Wide Identifier (WWID) of a controller or a LUN is not always easy unter HP-UX - depending on the release. Especially under the older releases 11.11 and 11.23 additional tools are required to get the requested information - this is much easier under 11.31.

Controller …

There are plenty of changes that have to be made after a fresh HP-UX 11i v1/v2 installation because of missing pre-configuration. For example:

Name resolution

By default, the file /etc/nsswitch.conf doesn't exist and has to be created and modified using a template. If this isn't done, neither XF86 nor the sw utility …

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 …