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As one podcast goes away an other one starts
I’m Cd-MaN and I’m a podcast addict 🙂 I listen to many podcasts, most of them related to technology, but the Linux podcasts have always had a special part on my mp3 player, because I’m a beginner with Linux and I want to learn as much as possible about it. So here are the Linux…
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Finding a Windows computer based on its NetBios name
A short tip: when working in hybrid environments (that is where both Windows and Linux machines are present), it is useful to be able to lookup a machine IP based on its NetBios name. You can do this by writing nmblookup [the name of the computer]. This will do a broadcast on all the interfaces…
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Offline updating of Debian systems
It has been my experience that a Linux system is much more usable if it’s connected to the Internet, because then the package management system can be used to resolve the dependencies of the programs. From what I’ve seen (and please bear in mind that I’m fairly new to it), in Linux it is much…
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Checking out CVS and creating patches
Update: Qemu moved from CVS to SVN. While the CVS repository is (and will be) available for some time, you should look at the new checkout instructions. Lately I started to dive into open-source development, specifically Qemu. Since I’m relatively new, here are some commands I found useful: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/sources/qemu co qemu – to…
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Why not to chain remote desktops?
Quick tip (learned the painful way): do not chain remote desktops, meaning don’t open a remote desktop (or VNC sessions for that matter) to one computer and open in that session a remote desktop to an other computer, unless you have bandwidth to waste and don’t mind the increased delay :-). The explanation is rather…
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Installing and using Truecrypt on Ubuntu
Update: while truecrypt still doesn’t offer native packages (ie. .deb / .rpm) for Linux distributions, their shellscript installer works just fine. So the simplified version of the installation procedure is: Download the correct package from Truecrypt (either 32 or 64 bit – you can find out which you need by typing uname -a – if…
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Linux tips
Via the All About Linux blog: bash completion – if you type ls — in your terminal and you tap the tab key twice, it will list all the available options. This works only of the most important commands (like ls, rm, …) but it’s still a nice add-on. And best of all – it…
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TT – Treacherous Technology
So, after a failed upgrade to Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn I was left with no choice but to boot into my Windows 2003 partition. (To Ubuntu’s defense: 7.04 is clearly marked as beta software and I was doing the update on my own risk). Just to be clear: this Windows 2003 SBS is a 100%…
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Linux tips
I am and will be very short of time for a couple of weeks, so most probably these will be the last posts for the month. If you’ve read and followed my advice on re-creating the swap partition after failed hibernation, there is one caveat I discovered: after recreating, the swap partition is not automatically…
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Two quick Linux / Ubuntu tips
If you find that you are running out of disk space and some of your applications crashed recently, you might want to look in your home folder. When applications crashes, Ubuntu creates here memory dumps to help the programmer determine the cause of the crash. But if you are no programmer, you can safely delete…