Archive for the ‘linux’ Category
Monday, July 5th, 2010
As usual, the main source for writing articles here is a need I had and a solution I found ;)
This time the need was to add a series of users in a Linux system without repeating the command useradd one zirillion of times.
First, we need to populate a text files ...
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
I’ve been recently fashioned by Zeroshell project, a very well documented project run by an italian guy who made a splendid job. I tried to set it up on a VIA based appliance with Intel 1 Ghz processor and 1 Gb RAM, using 1 Gb Compact Flash and the ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Memo to self...
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
Quick not to myself since everytime I spend hours in searching it again. The command line is: openssl x509 –req –in <path>/<certificate_request>.csr –signkey <path-to-CA-private-cert>/CA-private-cert.pem –out <path-to-certs-repository>/signed-cert-name.pem Hopefully next time I do not have to search it again hours and hours ;) Naturally this command required to ...
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
This is something not so easy to find on the internet, and once again Linux shows its immense power in the simplest way: CLI. Question: I have a .ISO file representing the image of a DVD and I want to know the LABEL of that DVD. Answer: Issue ...
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
Let's start this new year by referencing an excellent system I happened to find on the Internet to perform uPnP server functionality on my Linux system.
The name of the thing is LLink and although I haven't exploited at full yet, it looks VERY promising.
Some features:
Parses various video containers: vob, avi, ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Although it could seem an oxymore, sort something in randomic order might be usefl sometimes. Give a look to the script below, which I’m writing here for future reference. #!/bin/bash # # This script creates a list of file or symbolic link to ...
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
I don't consider myself a script guru, but sometimes I like to create small pieces of bash code to ease operations on my linux box... and I guess it's good idea to note here some of the recent solutions I've found for later remembering.
I'll try to comment them, so that ...
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Here’s another successful operation done on fantastic Linux OS that is a pure dream for other operating systems. Situation: I have a virtual machine with 20 GB HDD, partitioned as follows: 95% ext3 on primary partition 5% swap on first partition of extended partition I certainly ...
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
Should you come across the same need, I just found a working solution, even if quite odd. The trick to get it working is to go into sound settings and enable IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA, checking that volume is set to… 0. Magically sound will begin to flow out ...
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