Unmounting

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 »

Sphairon AR860

The AR860 is shipped by e.g. versatel – configured as a DSL modem. Admin accounts Firmware b2 IP 150.150.150.4 Login admin Password xad$l#12 (that’s a lower case “L”) Firmware b3 IP 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.254.254 Login admin Password Admin or xad$l#12 Convert to Router To switch from “Modem” mode to “Router” mode, there’s a nice manual… Read More: Sphairon AR860 »

apt-get Errors

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 »

Compiling PHP-GTK

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 »

Filesystems

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 »

Alternatives to Windows applications

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 »

VirtualBox

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 »

PArchive

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 »