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alt+shift vs. shift+alt Hi! In my .xmodmap file i have assigned Mode_switch to the right Alt key and have put several uselful characters on various keys: keycode 108 = Mode_switch keycode 30 = u U udiaeresis Udiaeresis [...] This setup has worked fine for a long time but recently (probably associated with some update of Debi... 8 Feb 2010 04:31
mdadm /dev/md0 raid not being created I have a server box with a raid setup using mdadm. It currently only has one drive (that's another story ...) but was working OK as a degraded array. However since rebooting the system last night it's no longer coming up. On bootup after the PC's normal F1-for-bios message (where I can go into BIOS setup) I get ... 4 Feb 2010 21:21
wget to save worldnet web pages? Worldnet is terminating its personal web pages. Apparently wget can save a copy of what I have there on my HD, but I am snowed by options. A recursive retrieve looks right, starting from index.html, and restricted to http://home.att.net/ What's a safe wget command to try that won't flood the server or dow... 5 Feb 2010 00:40
Mobile Phone Compatibility = Dead End I'm searching for a mobile phone with a QWERTY keyboard that's compatible with Linux. At a minimum I'd like to be able to: - save and restore my contact list - upload/download sound files - upload/download pictures I started my search on TuxMobil, specifically here: http://tuxmobil.org/phones_linux... 3 Feb 2010 17:24
unexplained bianry "diff" Will someone explain please why these files differ after I just cp'd them? The file sizes are about 4.4 GB: $ diff ./ssc_1992_highlights.iso /tmp/ssc_1992/dvd.iso Binary files ./ssc_1992_highlights.iso and /tmp/ssc_1992/dvd.iso differ $ cp -v /tmp/ssc_1992/dvd.iso ./ssc_1992_highlights.iso `/tmp/ssc_1992/dvd.... 4 Feb 2010 05:33
copy a file while it is actively being written Hi there, I am wondering if serious problem could happen if I copy a file that is actively being written to. I guess some file corruption might happen, right? More specifically, I am dealing with the snapshot of a qcow2 file. # qemu-img snapshot -c snap base.qcow2 # cp base.qcow2 snap.qcow2 # qemu-img snaps... 6 Feb 2010 15:12
nice bandwidth usage Greetings. There exists the "nice" command which schedules processes with lower CPU priority, and the "ionice" command to give processes lower I/O priority. These prevent processes from hogging the CPU or disk. Is there a similar command for giving a process lower network priority? I don't mean just throt... 2 Feb 2010 15:12
"Upgrading" There are some very stupid people here trying to convince everyone that it is necesasry and right and good to always use the latest version of a program, to "upgrade" as soon as the next version is available. This is nonsense. If an application is working well for you, there is no reason to "upgrade" and some ... 4 Feb 2010 00:06
printing from XP to Linux printer server Greetings - For the first time in 10+ years of using Linux, I decided to take one of my Linux machines (running CentOS 5.4) and configure it to be a print server, so that I can print from the net to it (typically, from a Windows machine printing to the machine I want to use as the print server). 1. plugged... 2 Feb 2010 15:12
Easing Windoze pains using Linux: multiple Win sessions onsingle Linux box On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:15:10 +0000, Rahul wrote: Thus each of the dinosaur-masters is still happy that his data is accessable and transparantly. If they only need to read/write to the data files, why do you not make them available as files in SAMBA shares from a GNU/Linux Samba Server? ... 2 Feb 2010 15:12 |