Category Archives: Linux

visual basic 6 revisited – linux – wine

Visual Basic

Earlier this year, I had written an article on running Visual Basic 6 on linux under wine, this is an update for it, the prior one is depreciated Getting Visual Basic 6 to work on linux is pretty easy, not … Continue reading →

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CPU scaling governors and you

Gnome CPU Scaling

What is your CPU being governed by? Should it be governed by it? Why? How? Here’s an outlook on the various CPU frequency governors, namely conservative, ondemand, powersave, userspace, and performance, that steps up and steps down the CPU: conservative … Continue reading →

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gentoo linux uclibc x86 stage3 | the updated

package1

The uclibc experimental stages on the gentoo mirrors are all outdated(they go back to years), so here are my stage3s’, which have been updated. Now master your ninja martial arts using a sleek gentoo powered, custom and home made gateway! … Continue reading →

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embedded gentoo [uclibc] | nothing beats this

gentoo-wordle-table

A few uclibc embedded gentoo facts: the compilation of the box takes around 15 minutes at boot up, takes less than 3 megabytes of RAM disk space: 17 megabytes boots in under 8 seconds on a pentium3 link to stage3 … Continue reading →

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Restore Broken Package DB on Sabayon

Sabayon's Empty Repository

System database not found or corrupted, running in safe mode using temporary, empty repository phoenix jude # equo rescue resurrect >> ####### ATTENTION: The installed package database will be resurrected, this will take a LOT of time. >> ####### ATTENTION: … Continue reading →

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Defining Two Different System Gateways

switch-cable

Situation above ground forces: You have two modems, or two ethernet connections, and want part of your connections to go through ppp0, and the rest through ppp1 Quick Fix: Quite easy, get both your connections live, and ppp0 will by … Continue reading →

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Fedora Constantine, SYSRQ and needless swapping

By default, fedora disables the SYSRQ functionality of the kernel, for some reason. To enable it, either add sysrq_always_enabled at the end of your kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.conf, or edit /etc/sysctl.conf, changing kernel.sysrq = 0 to kernel.sysrq = 1 Some … Continue reading →

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Visual Basic drinking Wine

Visual Basic running on Fedora

This tutorial is depreciated, please follow my new tutorial: visual basic 6 revisited – linux – wine Get past with your life on Windows, install Microsoft Visual Basic 6 on GNU/Linux with some good old wine… Install the required libs, … Continue reading →

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