A few days ago I wanted to use my HP C8000 workstation after a long time - but a defect changed my plans. Instead of showing the Boot Console Handler (BCH) the C8000 only presented a black screen. Even the serial interface was not working at all - no good sign.

I had a deepter look at the issue and unplugged all …

Depending on SSH client configuration and HP-UX release it is possible that the backspace control key (which is used for deleting erroneous inputs) is not working as expected.

1# mn^?^?man
2mn^?^?man: command not found

A possibility is to modify the configuraton of PuTTy - but this requires resetting the current …

Especially in older PA-RISC and Itanium machines HP Tachyon XL2 hostbus adapters can be found. If you want to know the associated HP part number (e.g. if you need to compare a support matrix) you might have used ioscan - and found nothing:

1# ioscan -funC fc
2Class     I  H/W Path  Driver S/W State   H/W Type …

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 …

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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 …