Category Archives: General Linux
Poulsbo isn’t that great, yet (Intel Atom Inside)
No, I’m not talking about the city of Poulsbo in Washington State. I’m talking about the low power Intel chipset for the Atom platform that is consuming 5W instead of the 25W the 945GC (22W) + ICH7 (3W) couple used … Continue reading
Utility of the day: fslint
Ever wondered how you could: Find duplicated files on your file system Find broken symlinks See the disk occupation for installed packages … Well, meet fslint (yum install fslint). It’s a nice little GUI and command line application that helps … Continue reading
VirtualBox 1.6.6
A new version of VirtualBox has been released: 1.6.6. The most remarkable change is probably the fact that VirtualBox doesn’t generate a ton of logs in your home directory anymore. This was a bug introduced in 1.6.4. For the full … Continue reading
Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and Fedora: great success
My old iPod Nano 1st generation is half dead, my old Nokia phone from 2003 is half dead, my current mobile phone carrier (Orange) charges an arm and a leg for a service I don’t use that much, it’s time … Continue reading
Book review: CompTIA Linux+ Cetification Study Guide
This weekend I had time to finish the reading of CompTIA Linux+ Cetification Study Guide. I don’t want to pass this exam, but the content of the book looked exciting to “refresh” basic Linux concepts. Now that I’ve read the … Continue reading
Running a Mac Mini without screen
The Mac Mini is really a cute little machine, it’s completely silent and consumes practically no power. The ideal Linux home server if you ask me. There is only one drawback if you use the BootCamp BIOS emulation + Linux: … Continue reading
Cache problems with Evolution and POP accounts
When I migrated from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9, I used the backup function in Evolution. Before backing up my mail accounts (POP3), I deleted all the sent mails and emptied the trash because it was the perfect moment to … Continue reading
Rsync on a Linksys NAS200 NAS – Howto
After some demands regarding the rsync on NAS200 post, here is a quick howto on how to (huhu) create an rsync server with a Linksys NAS200…feel free to comment this post if something isn’t clear enough. I assume that you … Continue reading
rsync on a Linksys NAS200 NAS
Because the price of electricity rose by about 20% in my part of Switzerland during the last months, I was searching for a low-power backup solution for some servers. The Linksys NAS 200 seemed to be the perfect solution: a … Continue reading
Unix Toolbox
I have seen this link on a forum: http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml It’s called “Unix Toolbox”; a page listing the most used UNIX commands, classified per category: System, Processes, File System, Network, SSH SCP, VPN with SSH, RSYNC, SUDO, Encrypt Files, Encrypt Partitions, … Continue reading