matrix is another take on federated messaging, supporting fancy features. this roughly shows how to setup a homeserver with matrix synapse and serve the riot web ui for matrix.

how to setup a current radicale on a server with no existing python 3000 and staying sane in the process.

steps to install syslinux to an usb key. shown here is how to boot memtest.

basic setup for servers and clients is described at upspin.io/doc/. to use suffixes (normal and +snapshot), a bit more setup is required on the client side.

i recently noticed that my wifi was really slow. checking it revealed that i only had 1Mbit as bitrate, while the link quality was fine.

i use thinkpads and really like the trackpoint. i also like middle clicking. this leaves one in a state where no sane scolling is possible, hold-middle-scrolling-trackpoint just seems wrong. so heres how to use the wretched trackpad for scrolling, disabling it as mouse.

Most of the time I’m too lazy to use a real RDBMS and it would be overkill anyway. bolt offers a nice embedded alternative. It’s not really complicated to use and has excellent documentation. Some more examples can never hurt though.

Using a window manager with KDM as login manager can be a bit tricky. This is how I’ve got dwm and ssh-agent with prompting for passphrases to startup correctly.

My repository of slackbuilds can be found at Bitbucket.