Category Archives: Software

Everything related to the non-physical digital world.

My iPXE settings

I’ll list my modifications (keep everything else as it is) here but keep in mind that you most probably wantdifferent settings. See also this post about iPXE in general. src/config/console.h (commented in to enable:) (changed from us to de🙂 src/config/general.h (changed from #undef to #define🙂 (changed from #undef to #define🙂 (changed from #undef to #define🙂… Read More: My iPXE settings »

Steam bug in Ubuntu

Steam has the bad habit to not run after upgrades of the Steam software. This is, because it uses its own libc which expects libraries not there in Ubuntu. To fix this, delete the file libstdc++.so.6.0.18 from the following folders: Update October 2016 It seems Steam has a few more bad duplicates to make it… Read More: Steam bug in Ubuntu »

Puppet on CentOS 7

To install Puppet on CentOS 7, you can basically follow these instructions. Notes: To permanently switch from WEBrick to Apache, configure systemd like this: Install client agent on RedHat/CentOS

Resize partition

Detect new disk size With virtual machines (VMware at least), you can resize the disk drives without restarting the VM itself. After doing that, you have to get Linux to recognize the new disk drive size. Use one of these (found hereand here) – assuming the modified drive is /dev/sdc: Check the success with fdisk… Read More: Resize partition »

Tango Messenger

If you text with someone over Tango, you might not know his/her phone number, because he got yours first and started the conversation. But if you are on a rooted Android, that’s no problem. Head to /data/data/com.sgiggle.production/files and find the file call_log.dat. Take a look at it – it should look similar to this: The… Read More: Tango Messenger »