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
1
Jan
2011

VirtualBox 4.0 on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick

Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian maverick contrib Then run: wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0 After running VirtualBox download the [...]

Written by jonny in windows
1
Jan
2011

msconfig Startup Programs

This searchable list if programs could come in useful when disabling programs from starting on slow windows machines.