Zero Filling a Disk in Linux

Zero Filling a Disk in Linux

The simple way to wipe or zerofill a disk is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1M However I found an article describing how to zero-fill with a progress indicator using pipebench, installed on Debian/Ubuntu ...

Increasing CentOS LVM under VMWare

Increasing CentOS LVM under VMWare

Background: I had an existing CentOS machine as a virtual machine running on VMWare ESX Server and it was running out of space so for future reference I did the ...

SquidGuard LDAP User Search and Special Characters

SquidGuard LDAP User Search and Special Characters

So I had a problem with the ldapusersearch string as some eejit has created an OU with spaces and an apostrophe in the name. So the characters are represented as: comma ...

Flushing local client DNS cache

Flushing local client DNS cache

From info I found here. This is how to flush the local client DNS cache. Windows: ipconfig /flushdns Linux: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart Mac: lookupd -flushcache

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Written by jonny in Uncategorized
12
Jul
2006

Cinelerra Video Editing on Ubuntu/Kubuntu

I did not fancy the idea of installing Cinelerra from source but fortunately someone is providing a repository.All I had to do was edit my sources.list adding the following:#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu [...]

Written by jonny in Uncategorized
12
Jul
2006

Linux Software

Video Editing Klear – TV viewing but can capture to MPEG ?? Worth testing cinelerra – apt instructions for ubuntu http://www.heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 Kino via apt kdenline – via Klik http://kdenlive.klik.atekon.de/ ManDVD [...]