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
25
Aug
2006

List of Installed Software

Guide here for getting a list f all your installed software so it can be restored on a new install.

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25
Aug
2006

Recipe: Lemon Drizzle Cake

4oz soft marg6oz self raising flour2 eggsFinely grated lemon rind6oz caster sugar1 tsp baking powder4 tbsp milk Put all in bowl and mix.Put in oven – 180F/350C for about 20 [...]

Written by jonny in Uncategorized
15
Aug
2006

Digital Photo Resolution

Megapixels Dimensions 2 megapixels 1600 x 1200 3 megapixels 2048 x 1536 4 megapixels 2274 x 1704 5 megapixels 2,560 x 1920 6 megapixels 2816 x 2112 7 megapixels 3072 [...]

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11
Aug
2006

Irish Wheaten Bread

Ingredients:0.5 pint of butter milk80z Plain Flour4oz Wholemeal Flour1 teaspoon Salt1 teaspoon Baking Soda1 teaspoon Sugar Mix and bake at 180 for 50 minutes

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2
Aug
2006

ASP MySQL Error Multiple Step

I was moving an ASP/MySQL application from one server to another. The newer server was using MySQL 5 whereas I had been using MySQL 3.23.I got the following error message [...]