KeePass: The Cross-platform Password Safe
These days you really need a strong, unique password for almost everything you do online. To make matters even worse for the average user, security […]
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Limit Bandwitdth Used by apt-get
It’s easy. Simply throw “-o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=X” in your apt-get command where X is the kb/s you wish to limit it to. So for example let’s […]
Querying the State of a Hardware WiFi Switch with RF-Kill
The laptop that I’m writing this post from has a really annoying strip of touch-response buttons above the keyboard that control things like volume and […]
Automatically put computer to sleep and wake it up on a schedule
Ever wanted your computer to be on when you need it but automatically put itself to sleep (suspended) when you don’t? Or maybe you just […]
Mount entire drive dd image
It is a pretty common practice to use the command dd to make backup images of drives and partitions. It’s as simple as the command: […]
How to test hard drive for errors in Linux
I recently re-built an older PC from a laundry list of Frankenstein parts. However before installing anything to the hard drive I found I wanted […]
Batch Converting FLAC to MP3
I came across this neat script somewhere on the internet while trying to batch convert a folder full of FLAC files to mp3 files. Hopefully […]
How to play Red Alert 2 on Linux
The other day I finally managed to get the classic RTS game Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 running on Linux, and running well in […]
Building glibc for LFS from Ubuntu by replacing awk
If you run into the following error trying to build LFS from a Ubuntu installation: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/Versions.all’, needed by […]
Notifications with Irssi in Screen
One of the biggest problems about running irssi in a terminal in screen is that there aren’t any notifications by default if you are mentioned, […]
Wireless Networking: Using a Cisco/Linksys WUSB54GC on Gentoo
We live in an old house, which has the unfortunate side-effect of lacking a wired network of any kind. All of our machines connect to […]
LFS: Installing VLC
Since the install of Linux From Scratch, one of the main issues I’ve been having is the playback of audio and video files. VLC does […]
How to update your (whole) Gentoo system
I wrote a simple script that you can download here that makes it easy to update your Gentoo system. It first re-syncs your portage tree […]
Getting Firefox 3.6.23 to compile under LFS
Using the instructions from the BLFS book with the latest available 3.6 build of Firefox, I was able to achieve success. I figured I’d try […]
KDE4, LFS: Make GTK Applications Look Like QT4 Applications
Do your GTK applications (i.e. Firefox) look like something designed in the 90’s in KDE? I think I can help you. I installed the latest […]
Installing glib-1.2.10 in LFS to get XMMS working
So I wanted to install XMMS in Linux From Scratch, as it’s one of the more reliable MP3 players and one of the first multimedia […]
LFS, pre-KDE: Fixing libmng with -fPIC and xine with a header
Fixing libmng with -fPIC In preparation for getting KDE4 (and Qt4, and all the other dependencies) working with my Linux from Scratch install, I noticed […]
How to enable reboot/shutdown in KDE on Gentoo
Yeah… apparently the ability to restart or shutdown your system using a normal user account from within KDE SC is not something that is installed […]
How to install sun-java6-jdk and Netbeans in Ubuntu 11.10
If you’ve recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and are a developer you may notice some things missing. For one there is no longer an option […]
Fix for mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory
Do you have the following situation: You’ve got a share on Windows (XP, Vista, 7) that you’re trying to access from a Linux system, in […]