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How not to choke your internet connection while downloading with wget
wget has a cool feature known as limit-rate. If you want to leave a bit of bandwidth for other things then use it with double u get. wget -c -t 100 --limit-rate=80k http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu-releases/8.10/ubuntu-8.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso The above means -c...
How long should dd take to zero a partition
I had a virus infested computer and I wanted to zero the partition and restore from a partimage file but first I thought I would zero out the data on the partition using dd so: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 This took absolutely ages... and I was wondering when it was...
Work around for umount: /mnt/sdb1: device is busy
You get this error when trying to umount a partition: umount /mnt/sdb1/ umount: /mnt/sdb1: device is busy umount: /mnt/sdb1: device is busy At a root prompt: Run fuser see man fuser for options fuser -v /mnt/sdb1/ Output of fuser USER PID ACCESS COMMAND...
Adding a HP PSC1610 for Xsane on Fedora 9
Problem: Cause: Fedora isn't as good as Ubuntu at detecting and installing your devices Resolution: Install libsane-hpaio Done
Fedora 9 – wxPerl error missing file libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so
Just got an error trying to run a wxPerl application on Fedora 9 complaining about missing "libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so" amongst other things. The fix: yum install wxGTK-devel-2.8.7-2.fc9.i386
Using Linux/Cygwin to split files into chunks for transfer to CD
Question: How can I tar up about 12GB of files on a linux box and then split the files into 700MB chucks? Answer: You can use the following 2 methods on any GNU tooled box or using the Cygwin environment on Windows. Using tar, gzip, split and cat - Method 1...