SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet, adopting P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology. In order to be able to watch sopcast streams you need to start the p2p client and once the p2p connection is established connect …

Introduction

The Gentoo package manager, Portage, uses a lot of disk space mostly due to a high number of small files. By storing the tree in a SquashFS file the used disk space goes down from about 740MB to 70MB !! It is also a lot faster due less number of …

Again I created ebuilds for tools I came across recently:

• net-analyzer/dnsenum
  
  DESCRIPTION="A perl script to enumerate DNS from a server"
  HOMEPAGE="http://code.google.com/p/dnsenum/"
  
  Very useful DNS information gathering tool during reconnaissance phase. Also part of the BackTrack distribution.
  Both the standard and the big …

Installation

1. Unmask and install the Android SDK update manager:

emerge dev-util/android-sdk-update-manager

In case you run into issues during compilation of any java ebuilds, try using the oracle-jdk-bin (1.7) !
For some reason on my machine some ebuilds failed using the icedtea-bin.

2. Add all users who should be …

Initial Setup

First you have to create a new private key within an existing or new keystore using keytool:

keytool -genkeypair -keyalg rsa -keystore keystorename -storepass keystorepassword -alias my_new_key 

The preceding command uses java 1.6 syntax! If your are still using Java 1.5, substitute -genkeypair with -genkey.

• to …

In order to find memory leaks within a java application it is sometimes not enough looking at thread dumps. With tools like visualgc, a tool the see the different memory pools inside a running java app, you can tune the memory setup concering heap size, perm size, survivor ratio, etc …

After watching some games on the live stream of the 2011 North American BattleNet Invitational I thought about returning to StartCraft 2 at least for some matches.
I started my SC2 installation and waited for various patches to be applied (Current version 1.3.6 ).

Unfortunately it dies even before …

Playing Everquest 2 using Wine, I suffered from the more and more often occurring "out of memory" crashes especially in new zones like RoK or TSO. After reading in the EQ2 forums about various remedies for Windows using the /3GB switch in boot.ini, I looked into Wine wether this …

On Hardened Gentoo Linux usb_inst.sh script fails because it attempts to run binaries which use RWX mmap and thus they are killed by the kernel due to PaX mprotect:

/mnt/iso # bash ./usb_inst.sh 
Device [/dev/sde] detected as [         Patriot Memory  ] is removable and size=15258MB
* Device [/dev/sde …

How to use my overlay

As my overlay was recently added to the layman list of overlays you can now easily add it running:

layman -S && layman -a quarks

or you checkout out the repository manually:

git clone git://www.startux.de/quarks.git
git clone http://www.startux.de …