Because I really dislike the default Ubuntu background color, and I always forget where to disable it:

Yesterday I went clay pigeon shooting for the second time. It was very nice, maybe this will become a new hobby :-) Nicest part that you do it in group mostly, and you get outside to do it.

Recently I needed to run an application that needs X on a server running SLES10. Because it wasn't necessary to have the application output anything on a screen, the X virtual framebuffer was sufficient to accomplish this. You can easily install the X virtual framebuffer, which comes with the xvfb package in SLES10. yast -i xorg-x11-Xvfb xorg-x11

Today I was working on a server running SLES10 with LDAP authentication enabled. I tried to add a local user account with home directory /dev/null, but useradd complained that this was an invalid directory. So I manually edited /etc/passwd and changed the home directory.

Today I needed to enable the pure-uploadscript functionality in pure-ftpd on a SLES 10 server. According to the spec file, the pure-ftpd RPM has been built with the --enable-uploadscript option, so no need to start rebuilding anything.