To anyone looking for this page. I noticed that some people had searched for my tcpdfilter program as recent as 2007. I had assumed that fresh meat would keep it around forever, so I just left it there, and forgot about it. Seeing it is…
Category: Linux
Well, I’ve had a lot of trouble switching my system from LVM, to RAID1+LVM on ubuntu 10.04. I got another drive for my system, created a mirror with one drive (temporarily of course) asked lvm to move my entire system over to that physical device,…
If you use bash under unix, Linux, or Mac OS X, and you’re continually forgetting how to convert filenames with spaces to filenames without spaces, then look no further.
When shrinking your LVM volumes, it is important to do it safely. I will show you how I like to do that here.
See comments for latest updates Recently I started having problems with my Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5300 AGN card. It simply quit working after I did a kernel upgrade. It was giving errors like “Unknown error 132”, and “deauthenticated (Reason: 9)”. The hardware switch did not…
I have been having some gentoo portage problems due to my system being out of sync. When I finally updated a month or two later, it simply wasn’t working. I was getting an error like the following… Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2009 (Could take a couple…
I’ve been having a problem where the volume level of my Dell Studio 17 notebook is just not loud enough when I’m running Linux. I went to windows, to see if the problem was the same there, and I found that the volume in Windows…
So, I had a need to use my SDHC card in my Dell Studio 17 (1737) notebook. So, I set out to find out why it wasn’t working. I ended up finding out that I needed to load mmc_block and sdhci-pci in order to get…
If you search for information on how to do LUKS encrypted home volumes, you’re likely to get these big fluffy documents on how to do it. Well, if you’re like me, you’d like to skip all that fluff, and get straight to the point. That’s…
So, I couldn’t figure out how to get my Macbook function keys to default to function keys under Linux, rather than media keys such as brightness, volume control, etc. I searched all over the net for information on this feature, and could only find stuff…