Steps I used to rename a volume group which had the root and swap partitions on it. This was on CentOS 6.4 # display your volume groups # make note of the name you want # to change vgdisplay # check your options vgrename --help # backup your fstab cp /etc/fstab...
Booklet Printing in Linux
The Dream I want to create a booklet from a PDF file, like so: I've been having trouble when I try to print Booklet format under Linux so I thought I would try to capture the settings I used in a blog post. Configure for Booklet in Adobe Reader & Print to...
pdftk – Usage Examples
For future reference. http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/
McDonald’s has Ubuntu
Walked in to the McCafe at Greenhills and the screen had Ubuntu running. McOpen Source - Would you like Fries with That?
Taking Talk Nerdy to Me to Extremes
Linux.fm a constant stream of text to speech taken from the Linux Kernel project. Why? You ask. Because they can.
Fanboy Post Alert – Why can I run a secure modern operating system on a P4?
My home computer is a P4. P4's are like 6+ years old. However it's still suitable for what I use it for. In fact it's performance has been improving of late. Why? Linux is maturing and the people who are designing the entire GNU/Linux eco-system are optimizing. Here...
Circular Reboot due to Harddisk Removal
Until yesterday I had two hard drives in my Fedora 13 box. Hard disk 1 - /dev/sda was a 200GB Western Digital and hard disk 2 - /dev/sdb is a 500GB Samsung containing my Fedora 13 installation. The Western Digital, after many years of faithful service has died, and so...
Ubuntu Math
The version number of Ubuntu is 9.04 and is based on the year and month of release. So 9.04 means 2009 month 04 (April). Therefore given that Ubuntu maintains a 6 month release cycle we can postulate: 4 + 6 = 10 So the new release 9.10 is due this month (October). And...
Stop people listing home directories on a Linux Host
If you issue ls -al /home on a Linux computer as a standard user. You will normally get a list of users on the system. This is because the permissions to /home/ are 755 which equates to drwxr-xr-x However if you as root run chmod 751 /home giving permissions of...
wxPerl Fedora 11
Update: See comment from Dave Cross below for a safer method of installing CPAN modules on an RPM system. The current wxPerl shipped with Fedora is Broken (version 0.91-1.fc11)... Still. /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error:...