On one of my laptops, a premium model with a Core i7, 32GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD disk, it seems to take forever (possibly longer) to upgrade from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 11 Pro, and I can’t quite wrap my head around …
As he re-entered the sfdisk dump manually in the remote recovery console, using the devil’s editor (vi), he was silently thanking the Linux developers for not screwing around with the file system when it cannot be mounted. Messing around with partition tables, disk volumes, and …
Old habits die hard, or something like that 🙂 Cloning one of my Ubuntu Desktop set-ups to a VirtualBox environment, I switched to using XFCE4 for my desktop (“xubuntu”). This works very well and the transition is minor. Most of the applications I use work …
How you save the NSA and other similarly inclined organization billions of dollars in hardware using only a decent operating system: tail -f /dev/person/to/track #unix #linux #surveillance #privacy
We mirror the Webmin website to bring it somewhat closer to Sweden, and recently I had to move the hosted mirror to another of our servers running Debian 8. All of a sudden, a cron job that had been working for many years went tits …
If you, like me, are using Ubuntu – or similar – for your daily stuff and need to connect to a Windows Server by using RemoteDesktop (RDP) / TerminalServer, you may find that local (Linux) resources are not made available to you on the Windows …
All of a sudden, rsyslogd on an Ubuntu installation running under OpenVZ is using 100% CPU. One alternative is to replace rsyslogd for syslog-ng, but if you want to “fix” rsyslogd instead, here’s how: service rsyslog stop sed -i -e ‘s/^\$ModLoad imklog/#\$ModLoad imklog/g’ /etc/rsyslog.conf service …
Using Gimp 2.8 and Single-Window Mode under Ubuntu 12.04.LTS + Gnome, I ran into somewhat of a snag today. No matter what I did, I could not get the tool palette to integrate into Single-Window Mode. I toggled the Single-Window setting to no avail. Re-starting …