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

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

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

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 linux, ubuntu

30
Jul
2009

Printing Color Syntax Highlighted Code on Ubuntu

There are other ways to achieve this but I like this method.Using Komodo Edit – a free/open-source light code editor licensed under various licenses including GPL, LGPL, MPL.The source code [...]

Written by jonny in ubuntu

21
Jul
2009

Wii WBFS on Ubuntu

I could not find a way to reduce thee size of a WBFS partition (although there is surely someone working on this) so…To delete, resize partitions use Gparted as normal [...]

Written by jonny in linux, red hat centos

21
Jul
2009

Proftpd mod_tls and Jscape FTP applet

Recent problem with a Proftpd server configuration on Red Hat/Centos. I had configured mod_tls but on this newer version of the module I had to add the following lines to [...]

Written by jonny in web design

19
Jul
2009

Buy Wine Online in Ireland

La Petite Princess, based in Dundalk, have just launched an online service for wine in Ireland, offering 12 bottle cases of La Belle Terrasse French wine at savings of €3 [...]