systemd, lircd, mceusb, xbmc and Arch Linux

After migrating my Arch based media center to systemd, my IR mceusb remote stopped working with lircd. I needed to do the following steps in order to make it function again. More ...

Published: 2012-11-11

Performance reporting with bash, gnuplot and LaTex

I soon found out that generating graphs for longer periods and for many servers using TiKz took a very long time to compile and I started to look for other solutions - GNUplot with the gnuplottex class proved to be the right solution. More ...

Published: 2012-10-02

Convert PCF to PSF (Console font)

Here is the quick and dirty howto on converting PCF fonts to PSF using Gohufont as an example More ...

Published: 2012-09-29

100% CPU load with XBMC 11 Eden

Initially I was very pleased with this update until I noticed the amount of CPU used while XBMC was idling. 100% of CPU usage of one core. More ...

Published: 2012-04-28

Unix performance reporting with tikz/pgfplot

I became tired using excel to create performance reports and decided to invest some time in creating a template in LaTeX using the fabulous pgfplots package. More ...

Published: 2012-01-13