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Decided to try to access my GMail using mutt .. A good .muttrc configuration does the mail fetch trick.. I’ll add the details later. On Debian we have exim4 can be used synonymously as sendmail .. The sendmail part is a little bit tricky. Some tls and auth settings in exim4 configuration and still I…
I decided to have Debian Sarge (3.1) – www.debian.org on the new disk that I installed on my home server. The new disk is a 250GB SATA Maxtor and my SATA controller is SiS 180. Installing from ISO-burned DVD’s I got error: Disk error 80, AX= 4280 drive 9FFirst I thought it was due to…
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The RPM database holds that information. e.g.: $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/asmscan oracleasm-support-2.0.1-1
If you have a CD/DVD ISO image. If you do not want to burn a CDROM/DVDROM for this (Era of medialess organizations – following after paperless organizations) you can mount it as a loopback device. It is simple: # mount -o loop -t iso9660 mydiskimage.iso /media/iso
See http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/. An excellent and simple resource. Keep your good C programming skills and stick to them.Now you will live on the dangerous side of things where a SEGV is a system crash 🙂 “Understandingthe Linux Kernel” by Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati is a very good bookto dig into the stuff. Have a look…
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The dmesg on Linux does not have timestamps. dmesg is the kernel ringbuffer and it is not a logfile. To see timestamped log files on Linuxgoto /var/log and see other logs than messages* The dmesg hastimestamps on Solaris. Because it is just a script processing thesystem logs. Let’s compare apples to apples… Linux does the…
Use OpenOffice (2.0.2 that I have).. And never use the *.doc format again. Native formats like *.odt rocks. 2.2 is way way better..
I have Firefox 1.5.0.1, Thunderbird 1.5, and gaim-1.5.0-12.el4 on RHEL4 AS on x86. All of those was hanging when a file dialog was involvedand the file dialog was never been displayed. The RHEL4 Update 3provided gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8.2.. This was experiencing the problem,force upgrading to gnome-vfs2-2.10.0-5 fixed it Ooops .. That was fine until I rebooted by…
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This is a long route to follow I feel .. But I’m on it anyway .. Doing this with ROKRE6 .. First better to find a way to flash the phone from Linux desktop. RSDLite is ok but it is Windoze only .. Putiing the phone to MBM flash mode by power+photo and attaching to…
Due to more than 10 (or so) missed events on my ROKR E6, I could not have the list of missed events since .. Now there are “128 Missed events” …..!!!!! Looking for a way to clear them up.. The problem is that to tell ROKR E6 to “Cancel” them all, one needs to have…