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 ubuntu
18
May
2010

UNR on the eeepc

Installed the Ubuntu Netbook Remix on the 7″ eeepc by downloading the iso then running System > Administration > Startup Disk Creator then pointing it at the iso I downloaded [...]

Written by jonny in ubuntu
13
May
2010

Lightning for 64-bit Linux

Lightning Calendar for Thunderbird on 64-bit Linux (Ubuntu) can be downloaded from here:ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/lightning/releases/1.0b1/contrib/linux-x86_64/Doesn#t seem to appear on the official download page

Written by jonny in ubuntu
1
May
2010

Lost Grub on Ubuntu 10.04 Upgrade

Oops chose the wrong disk for grub while upgrading and system wouldn’t boot. Inserted the Super Grub Disk I keep handy for such eventualities and this allowed me to boot [...]