I had some issues today with the Akonadi server failing on my Slackware 14.1 box at the office, so I resorted to killing X for a quick revival. However, issuing startx only resulted in the following errors:

I woke up this morning to a mail informing me that WordPress had been upgraded to version 4.4.1. Shortly after I tried to access my blog to verify that everything had gone smoothly, but unfortunately my webserver showed no sign of life. Since I’ve previously had a few hard learned lessons with the RPi2, that made me a bit uneasy. A couple of hours later though, as I was reviewing my logs, the problem became pretty obvious:

Distrowatch had an interesting “feature story” on Void Linux last year that caught my attention. Though the review painted a rather bleak image of the distribution, it still came through as an original project with some exiting features.

So the “DELETE your logs” message hit my server last night and at first glance it does look like a HTTP DELETE request :-)

Prerequisites: xdg-utils

When clicking a magnet link, the Chrome (or Chromium) browser will launch an external application to handle the link (remember it’s a URI, hence the external protocol request message). Anyhow, if your system doesn’t have an application associated with magnet links, then the result will be no action at all.

Some big news was revealed through the Slackware Current (pre-release) changelog today as the switch from udev to eudev was finally announced.

So the last report from my Slackware based RPi2 hosting project ended on a cliffhanger (pun intended), as I was just recovering after suffering data corruption, the occasional kernel panic and random errors. Suspecting the instability might be caused by my overly optimistic approach to overclocking and overvolting, I decided to turn things down a few notches.

So I wanted to split a 3840×1080 wallpaper in two halves for my dual monitor based KDE 4.10.5 setup. Obviously there are several applications that would do the job, but why bother when ImageMagick can do it with a one-liner. The “magick” is achieved by using a geometry argument:

Just for the record: collecting failed logins from Logwatch and feeding them to the firewall is by no means a viable strategy against brute force attacks or other intrusion attempts. There are better means to mitigate these kind of security concerns in real time.

The message in question as shown below made its appearance while I was trying to shut down my laptop. The job went on for about a minute before completing its task.