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The installation went great on my samsung n150 plus netbook, but my HP DV7 laptop was a different story. Fix White Screen of Death (ati video cards) Boot and at the grub menu, highlight the boot mode you want and press TAB key to edit. At the end of the line and before the –, […]
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*** VTE ***: Failed to load terminal capabilities from ‘/etc/termcap’ Fix: [codesyntax lang=”bash”] mkdir -p /usr/share/vte/termcap/ ln -s /usr/share/vte/termcap-0.0/xterm /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm [/codesyntax]
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So on my backtrack installation and also on my gentoo laptop with the same directory structure, I keep everything up to date that is in subversion or similar using a script. Here is the script….. By the way, I don’t have the identical toolset as backtrack. I have added a lot of things, and I […]
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Did you ever wish you could start certain scripts only when you are bringing the network up and then stop them when bring the network down? For the longest time, I was using wicd to manage network connections. At some point and time I decided to take a look at NetworkManager. Using network manager, you […]
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I use virtualbox a lot and have for years. One of the things I can never remember is how to clone a vdi disk image. I sometimes need to quickly deploy a testing environment, say 3 – 10 identical base machines, and this script makes it really quick and easy. Enjoy…. [codesyntax lang=”bash”] #!/bin/bash # […]
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So, sometimes I write scripts to be a quick way to monitor or audit other systems. The following script was written as a way to quickly audit a list of domain names, i.e. from a list of 1 domain per line. Initially it was used to audit a list of subdomains from a nettica account […]
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If you get an error install app-pda/gtkpod-2.0.0 about libimobiledevice.so.1 and you already have installed app-pda/libimobiledevice-1.1.0, the problem is because there is not a symlink. The fix is easy: [codesyntax lang=”bash” lines=”no”] $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libimobiledevice.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib64/libimobiledevice.so.1 $ sudo ldconfig $ sudo env-update [/codesyntax]
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WP Supercache requires permalinks. There are many ways to do this in wordpress, but the easiest is to just install the plugin nginx compatibility. Then enable the plugin for either php 4 or php 5 (php 4 is default), go to settings, permalinks, and select whichever you want. Then enable the wp supercache plugin. Fixed
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I bought my netbook, a samsung N150 Plus from Best Buy. It was an emergency purchase because my full size laptop, an HP DV7, had stopped working. Without going into details, the design of the “Smart” batteries of HP laptops suck! Who ever thought you could NOT run a laptop, even on AC power when/if […]
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I am teaching three Distance Learning Classes for the Maysville Community & Technical College beginning in the fall semester. The two courses are: NIS230 – Introduction to Unix (using Fedora Core Linux) CIS200 – MySQL & PHP Programming The first course, NIS230, is a repeat of the Winter course using a revised edition of the […]