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Gentoo “quick” install
I’m playing around with different distros in VirtualBox, and happened to try Gentoo. Boy, what a fun that was 🙂 The first indication that something is wrong was the fact that they had a quick install guide, which didn’t seem all that quick… After failing to make it start (twice), I searched around and found…
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Lightning openSUSE review
Recently I had the opportunity to install Linux on a laptop, and I thought that I should widen my experiences, so I choose openSUSE 11.0. Unfortunately I wasn’t very successful, so most probably I will end up going with an other OS (I’m still undecided between Fedora 10, or maybe I should just lick my…
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What to do if your touchpad (trackpad) stops working under openSuse?
Symptoms: your touchpad works on the login screen, however once you’ve logged it, you can’t move the mouse cursor. I experienced it under openSuse, however it may alos come up under other Linux versions using Gnome. The problem: the maximum/minimum speed got reset to 0. The solution (this is openSuse specific): Start the control center…
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Solving the “DLL failed to initialize” problem with Wine
Recently Wine was refusing to start any Windows program. When I dropped down to a (gnome-)terminal and tried to launch executables the “manual” way (by typing wine [executable name]), an error message similar to this was presented: fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION err:module:LdrInitializeThunk “RPCRT4.dll” failed to initialize, aborting err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L”…” failed, status c0000005…
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Viewing colored output with less
When an output is filtered through less, the colored characters are transformed to black and white (or whatever your terminal settings are). This is because less, by default, strips away (filters out) escape sequences. These are special sequences which tell the terminal to do something special (like move the cursor, change the color and so…
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Blogging from Gnome
I’ve installed the Gnome Blog widget for some quick blogging, and so here it is – my first quick entry. Some updates: The HTML generated is pretty clean (probably mostly because it doesn’t have a whole lot of formatting features) It misplaced the title 🙁 (instead of making it the title of the post, it…
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The new rm -rf /
There are many urban legends out there talking about n00bs asking a *nix related question and getting the answer just do rm -rf / from the terminal (by the way, you don’t want to do that – it tries to recursively erase all the files from your hard-drives – in general when you get advice…
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Kernel 2.6.24 + PostgreSQL != love?
It seems so. The sad thing is that at the moment Ubuntu Server 8.04 (LTS) comes with 2.6.24… Ouch. Hopefully the patches will trickle down quickly. Also, note to myself: newer is not always better. Update: back to the future – 2.6.24. Thank you Marcin for pointing it out. Also corrected the tags.
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Setting the CPU speed visually in Ubuntu
This is a nice little tip from a friend on how to make the your CPU frequency indicator actually work. Some things I discovered in the process: The sticky bit, which, if I understand correctly is an other way for privilege elevation under *NIX (the other two I know of are sudo and su). This…
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Bash shortcuts
Or: never do history | grep again! The command line interface of the *nix systems is amazing and Windows doesn’t have anything that comes even close to it (although I still have to experiment with PowerShell – I like very much the base idea that instead of text lines you get objects with well defined…