Archive for the ‘linux’ Category
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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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Made this small script for this purpose… #!/bin/bash # # Script to check a directory and write in file the new files # since last check. # ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
It took me a while to figure out due to misleading information over the vast Internet suggesting to search for non existing /etc/vsftpd.users or something like this. Thing you have to do is to edit /etc/ftpusers and remove root from there.
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
You might need to do something with a list of files contained in a file… and maybe these file names include spaces, therefore using a standard for i in `cat filename` do echo $i done does not work ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Suppose you are on a Linux box with multiple NICs.
It happens that there is one of them that loads with a driver disturbing test/activity you’re doing and you want to exclude it from modprobe.
You should edit file /etc/modprobe/blacklist and add there the driver name used by the card you want ...
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