The fastestmirror plugin may be useful at some points, but it can be a pain in the ass at others.
For example, I tried updating my CentOS installation today and because of the mirror caching it was downloading the updates at 30K/s. After disabling the plugin the speed from picking a different mirror jumped to 3MB/s.
To disable the plugin…
The dd command doesn’t include any kind of output on its operations. So if you’d like to run a lengthy dd operation and monitor its status, you’ll have to resort to a trick.
Running killall -USR1 dd will make dd to output it’s current status…
I couldn’t resist not trying out my RaspberryPI which I received yesterday 🙂
I quickly recycled one of my SD cards, installed the recommended SD image and booted it up.
After the initial boot setup screen (and partition resize), you can see it running connected to a monitor via HDMI, with a keyboard, mouse and wireless adapter (Asus WL-167g) all plugged in a 4-port USB hub…
Yay! After around 4 months of waiting, it is finally here. My very own Raspberry PI 🙂
It appears I received a rev2 board which, among other small improvements, should feature 512MB of RAM instead of 256.
The board comes packed in a nice neat pink(?!) case, together with a quick start guide giving you the essential information on how to get the thing started…
It is more and more obvious that while Thunderbird and Firefox are awesome programs, lately Mozilla is starting to implement design “features” which, while appealing and useful for a new/novice user, are a hassle for old power users…
I’m in a cleaning frenzy today, so using WinDirStat I’ve begun to inspect every little corner of my Windows partition for wasteful unnecessary and leftover files.
One of the places that always bugged my for taking up space is the Windows\Installer folder…
I decided to rearrange space a bit on the new CentOS server I am setting up…
This tutorial lists the steps I took to resize (grow) a functional RAID1 volume to a new size without losing data.
One of the gadgets I started using recently is the “Now Playing” gadget.
One issue I noticed though is its inability to display the trackname for tracks which lack the ID3 tag. The widget would just switch to its “Play a file in Winamp” message. So after a bit of tinkering, I managed to get it to use the track filename and display that instead…
Sometimes a redirect from the root of the website to the subfolder is needed. The following .htaccess rules achieve just that…
Just like in real-life construction and rebuilding, you sometimes need to demolish and rebuild an existing website. And you probably want to do this behind a very nice and safe wall.
The wall, in our case, will be a “currently rebuilding. please visit soon” index.html file. If directory index priority is set to html then php, now the index.html file will be our visible website and hide the soon-to-be-demolished php-based website.
This is an extract from WD’s own “Model Number Format for OEM and Distribution Channels” document – describing what each letter/number of a WD hard drive model number refers to.
It’s great that Linux nowadays supports all the power management features available on computers. But it’s odd that beside the buttons to trigger standby/hibernate – which are only available in a graphical interface – there are no simple console commands to put the computer to sleep or into hibernation.
