here we are again, vmware modules need some tweaks again … here you will find a quick and easy patch. in short, you have to fix some conditions: #!/bin/sh cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source tar xf vmmon.tar mv vmmon.tar vmmon.old.tar sed -r -i -e ’s/KERNEL_VERSION\(4, 6, 0\)/KERNEL_VERSION\(4, 9, 0\)/g' vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c sed -r -i -e ’s/retval = get_user_pages\(\(unsigned long\)uvAddr, numPages, 0, 0, ppages, NULL\);/retval = get_user_pages\(\(unsigned long\)uvAddr, numPages, 0, ppages, NULL\);/g' vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c tar cf vmmon....

Hey folks, have you ever been too fast at committing and pushing to a remote git repo? maybe … you think. Git allows you to revert your pushed commit very easily. BUT don’t forget to save your changes, if you want to recall the good work there. I found a very good explanation how to do it [1]. In short you can delete your last commit by executing following commands: git reset HEAD^ --hard git push -f...

I was searching for a new password manager for all my devices and even the server. Thanks to Matthias Fassl [1], he pointed out a cool tool “passwordstore” [2]. Keep it simple stupid, but handy enough to manage all the desired passwords and secrets. In combination with some kewl password generators like “pwqgen” [3] it is really easy to manage a bunch of passwords. And if you regularly change your private key, here is a useful script for updating the whole vault:...

hey folks, it is very annoying to work on a lame IDE … eclipse mars was really lame, but after defining the proper GTK launcher, it works again :) Only add the --launcher.GTK_version 2 to the eclipse.ini and the speed is cool again!

Hey folks, I like my Sonos, it is a gorgeous Soundsystem! Especially the multiroom function works like a charm. It is indeed a smart speaker system ;) But, there are two things I don’t like at all: First, there is no Linux client. Second, is it not quite easy to play music from any device on the Sonos speakers. The first problem I’ve solved with help out of the Sonos community forum....