Category: gentoo | sabayon | fedora
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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 kernel.sysrq = 0 to kernel.sysrq = 1 Some kernel updates on fedora also have the tendency to write to swap needlessly, even though…
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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. $ winetricks ddr=gdi vb6run gecko gdiplus fontfix d3dx9 corefonts mdac_typ dcom98 From a working…
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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…