ubuntu

UBports could potentially breathe new life into my old Nexus 5 when purchasing my next Nexus, which would be more than what was possible with my old Galaxy Nexus.

Ubuntu 10.04: Why is ksmd eating CPU cycles? | Interphero Miscellany. Okay, just stumbled upon this on my server and blogging it for later reference. When using kvm, on newer Ubuntu versions, ksmd appears, which actually compares memory pages between virtual machines and only stores duplicate pages once - this saves RAM but consumes CPU. If you don't do over-commit on memory, you can safely turn it off.

Howto to rebuild Debian packages. Since I had to do it again - especially important is the hint about dch --local blah, so that you get version numbers that differ from the official ones and are not automatically overwritten with the current version from the Debian repository.

Ubuntu Cron error - Module is unknown - after libpam upgrade. Argh!!! That really caught me off guard - I didn't notice it for a whole month, so the Metaeule wasn't updated during that time, the cron was just gone. Damn it. I only realized today to look for the cause outside the Eule and then stumbled upon the log messages. Now everything should work properly again. I hope.

MacBookAir3-2/Meerkat - Community Ubuntu Documentation. If anyone wants to equip the nice new MacBook Air with Ubuntu. Not really an option for me, especially since I found a really usable infrastructure for installing normal software with Homebrew.