Netter Hack: wie man eine alte Wählscheibe als Eingabegerät für PAM und sudo umfunktionieren kann. Wenn jetzt Andreas endlich mal seine Stromschleifenschnittstelle bauen würde, würde ich auch den passenden Treiber für den Fernschreiber fertig machen… http://hackaday.com/2011/02/01/rotary-dial-authenticates-sudo-commands/
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Measuring temperature in a PC should be easy: after all, most mainboards have extensive monitoring capabilities for temperature and voltage levels built-in. Unfortunately, very few of these facilities are documented properly, and software support is lacking. Instead of trying to navigate the maze that is lm-sensors (which isn’t even available for FreeBSD), I decided to [...]
If you have trouble with Flash segfaulting in Linux Firefox-3.5.2 (the symptom is a browser hang), I fixed that by downgrading Flash from Flash10 to Flash9. Of course Flash9 is full of security holes. In combination with the Flashblocker Firefox extension and only activating it on trusted sites it seems like a reasonable approach. Of [...]
