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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Browsing all articles from February, 2011

Written by jonny in games

25
Jul
2010

SNES games on Nintendo DS

SNES emulator for the Nintendo DS – great!

Written by jonny in linux

19
Jul
2010

WineTricks for Windows Dependencies

Download the WineTricks script from here: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks Make it executable and then move it to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin Run it and a GUI will appear to tick the stuff you [...]

Written by jonny in photography

14
Jul
2010

Ubuntu Bibble libstdc++5

Error while trying to install Bibble 4: Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libstdc++5 Got the DEB file from:http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/libstdc++5And the Bibble installer now works

Written by jonny in photography

14
Jul
2010

Photoshop Airbrushing Article

Good article about the lies of airbrushing with a before and after image by Debenhams.

Written by jonny in Uncategorized

13
Jul
2010

Wii Hacking for Homebrew

Someone updated the Wii by accident so re-hacked using this guide.Now enjoying SNES and old Spectrum/Amstrad games

Written by jonny in linux, ubuntu

11
Jul
2010

Join AVI video files

Install mencoder if not already installed and at the command line: mencoder *.avi -o joined.avi -ovc copy -oac copy