I'm putting this here so I can use it for later. I have the following: 150GB HDD of which 123GB is filled with data on a Dell Optiplex 330 the source computer 1TB Western Digital MyBook Essential Edition as the backup media A copy of the latest Ghost Corporate Edition...
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...
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...
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...
Problem: Cause: Fedora isn't as good as Ubuntu at detecting and installing your devices Resolution: Install libsane-hpaio Done
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
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...
Using apt-get or synaptic install lynx libwxgtk2.8 libwxgtk2.8-dev libgtk2.0-dev Test::POD::Coverage As root run CPAN with the command to install wx. You may have to configure CPAN prior to using it. I chose to follow dependencies and kept most of the defaults. sudo...
I am currently writing a small wxPerl application on Windows that will take user input and then send that input via ssh to a Linux server for further processing. I am using PuTTY's command line component plink.exe for this. To stop the wxPerl program launching a DOS...
Dia is a drawing and diagramming application for Linux or Windows. I have used it for a long time to draw network and flow diagrams for my work. However I've always been a bit whelmed of the under variety, by the 2 dimensional icons for some things. While there is a...