Virtual Expander is a software which is bundled with the following models: The following information is based on the 1.x version since the 2.x was not available at the time I figured this out. But I guess it will work on that versions also. How it works Basically, VE is a compression tool. It lets… Read More: SONY Virtual Expander »
sudo Using sudo umount you can unmount ANYTHING but need sudo access. fusermount Using fusermount -u you can unmount all FUSE mounts. pumount Using pumount you can unmount all mounts below /media which don’t appear in /etc/fstab. Shutdown/Reboot hangs If there are mounted cifs shares, you might encounter a “CIFS VFS: no response for cmd… Read More: Unmounting »
If you get the following error while updating the package list: You need to manually update the key. The key-ID is the last 8 digits of the key, in this case: 0c713da6. Now fetch the key from the Ubuntu keyserver: And finally add the new key to the apt-keyring: You can even automate this a… Read More: apt-get Errors »
To compile php-gtk, you need the following packages: When trying to use the buildconf.sh, you might encounter the following error: which leaves the configure-script in a broken state. The problem is that the newer libtool.m4 has been split into different files. To make it work, you have to concatenate the different files back into the… Read More: Compiling PHP-GTK »
Creating ext3 You might want to enable additional features using tune2fs. feature may be one of the following: feature Description large_file If you have files > 2GiB, this flag should be automatically set by the kernel. dir_index Uses hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories. sparse_super Limits the number of backup superblocks to… Read More: Filesystems »
Windows application(s) Linux equivalent(s) Adobe Photoshop GIMP Adobe Illustrator Inkscape AeroFlyFMS CRRCSim ElStEr Taxbird foobar2000 RhythmboxMPD with pympd Google Earth Marble (or try their WinE-Version) IrfanView GQview Microsoft Office OpenOffice.org Miranda Pidgin Nero Nero Linux Picasa F-Spot (or try their WinE-Version) PopTray mail-notification PortableAppsU3 PorToolsl-portableKlik Putty CM + PuTTY grcm or ~/.ssh/config StarMoney Moneyplex (or… Read More: Alternatives to Windows applications »
Compacting a disk image Applications for overwriting empty blocks Eraser (Windows) [ Homepage ] Install as normal. Then go to Edit → Preferences → Erasing… and select the second Tab Unused disk space. Create a new method with one pass and a pattern of only zeroes. Now go to the “On Demand”-Tasks and create a… Read More: VirtualBox »
Homepage: sourceforge.net From the homepage: The original idea behind this project was to provide a tool to apply the data-recovery capability concepts of RAID-like systems to the posting and recovery of multi-part archives on Usenet. Parchive can be used to add recovery records to e.g. a DVD. How to do this is described on Mike… Read More: PArchive »
To set your favorite LAF in all Java apps, you can create a file swing.properties in your jre/lib folder with following contents: You can also set the _JAVA_OPTIONS environment variable to the following (or just specify these parameters upon the java-call): From now on you will see NimbusLookAndFeel in all Java applications… Read More: LookAndFeel in ALL apps »
At work we have the Kerio Mailserver Appliance for VMware which is based on Fedora Core 6. Since they use the ugly yum, I decided to install apt-rpm. I’m still missing something like aptitude, but it is okay now. apt-rpm expects some *.list files in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory – as does the Ubuntu apt-get. Repositories… Read More: apt-rpm »