Archive for the ‘Various’ Category

Bluetooth and headless Linux

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Ever wondered how to connect your linux box via bluetooth, for instance to allow file transfer with your phone? I found some cool and working hints on the Net, reporting here below what worked for me. Connect your USB dongle Install what ...

Portable Cygwin Apps

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Very cool idea to make Cygwin environment portable! Link is at http://symbiosoft.net/?q=cygwinportable The power of Linux in Windows.... available in your USB stick!

Channels on WiFi

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

I just learnt something cool to finetune a WiFi net and before I forget, it's better to take note as usual. It has to do with channels and frequencies and issue at home was that my WiFi was not performing as I was expecting. It was configured to run on channel 8, ...

How to resize a filesystem to match size of a partition.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

One of the things I like of Linux is that despite I'm working with it since 1994 I never end learning part of it. Today my need was the following: I dd a 20 Gb backup onto a 40 Gb HDD and it worked smoothly, but problem is that filesystem on ...

Nice signature!

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Surfing the 'Net I found a cool signature to insert in mail, etc.  echo niugnePniraoR | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "" } { for (i = NF; i >= 1; i-- ) printf $i }'; echo Do you ...

Let’s start

Friday, December 21st, 2007

this is a start!