Author: Jude Pereira
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Lazy System Admins – Bash Completion
Let’s admit it, we’re all lazy system admins. The bash completion in any other distribution is incomplete, and not as powerful as the one in Gentoo. It just does not work the way it works so brilliantly in Gentoo Linux. Ofcourse, you can port that same source to other distributions. To enable bash completion in…
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QEMU | Quick Networking for TCP/UDP
Networking with a guest in QEMU is often a headache, TUN/TAP, seriously? Too hectic, let’s stick to the basics, TCP/UDP based. Instead of setting up a really complex set of configuration files, wouldn’t it be easy to just emulate the network card, DHCP the guest, and let it work right out of the box? Well…
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visual basic 6 revisited – linux – wine
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 deprecated Getting Visual Basic 6 to work on linux is pretty easy, not much trouble, all the basic things work, as of what I’ve tested. Here’s how you…
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CPU scaling governors and you
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 Pros: very much alike the ondemand governor gracefully increases the stepping, unlike ondemand which sets…
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noCD? |boot from usb| Sabayon Linux
I had a pen-drive lying around, and so I decided to try out a new distribution of linux, Sabayon Linux. Why Sabayon? On a base install, everything is there and just works perfectly For a newbie, the hard part is often getting playback codecs, well, Sabayon has them pre-installed Sabayon has focused on the base…
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Restore Broken Package DB on Sabayon
System database not found or corrupted, running in safe mode using temporary, empty repository [sourcecode lang=xml] phoenix jude # equo rescue resurrect >> ####### ATTENTION: The installed package database will be resurrected, this will take a LOT of time. >> ####### ATTENTION: Please use this function ONLY if you are using an Entropy-aware distribution. Can…
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Defining Two Different System Gateways
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 default be the default gateway. Now, use a proxy for all other connections, so if…
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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 [sourcecode language=’bash’]kernel.sysrq = 0[/sourcecode] to [sourcecode language=’bash’]kernel.sysrq = 1[/sourcecode] Some kernel updates on fedora also have the tendency to write to swap needlessly,…
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Visual Basic drinking Wine
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, etc. [sourcecode language=’bash’]$ winetricks ddr=gdi vb6run gecko gdiplus fontfix d3dx9 corefonts mdac_typ dcom98[/sourcecode] From a…
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Upgrade WordPress, eh?
Here’s what most, or at least all of you are doing: your upgrading your WordPress blog back-end from time to time as and when releases are out. Most of the articles about this tell you how to upgrade. Well, this one doesn’t. Here are five reasons why not to upgrade WordPress! Your present theme(which you…
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You should not use Airtel
| life!No one likes to be controversial about this. I would definitely agree with Airtel and it’s “just awesome” service to me. Now, I rather would not at all. “Airtel has me on the worse side”. Looking at this agreeable GPRS scheme, “Nightly Month@Rs. 89”, displayed at *567#, is that you get 100MB during the day…
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Easily Sort Your Music Library
Here is a very simple script to sort your whole music library according to their artists, [sourcecode language=’bash’] #!/bin/bash # sortMusic v0.4 # make sure this script in in the music directory and you execute this script from there # know issue: will display many errors, but it does it fine, those errors are not…
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NON-Standards Compliant C++ with Mumbai University
Mumbai University fails to keep up with the ever-evolving C++ syntax. Making Turbo C/C++ as their prescribed IDE, Turbo C/C++ is ancient and will not compile with the present syntax of C++. Here is the simplest example: [sourcecode language=’c++’] #include #include void main() { cout
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Managing Your Gentoo [“Sort-Of” Easily], Tips, and More
***This article has been placed under constant expansion. So keep a check on it!*** Law #1: If anyone tells you that, “To administer a Gentoo Build is easy”, tell him/her to go f*** off. Ofcourse, if your an expert at it, then it’ll be an exception for you. Yes, it really is easy if you…