For those with dual-boot (or above) systems, the Windows partition often contains many files that we have been unable or too lazy to migrate to our Linux partitions. Therefore, being able to access this partition is an important issue. The ntfs-3g program for Linux allows us to do that quite easily. However, as I quickly [...Read more...]
I recently did a minimal install of Debian, so I had a lot of package installing to do afterwards. Imagine my horror when this error appeared in the package installing window on Synaptic Package Manager: Preconfiguring packages … dpkg: `update-rc.d’ not found on PATH. dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. NB: root’s PATH [...Read more...]
Simply input the following command into Terminal: history | sed ‘s/ / /g’ | cut -d” ” -f3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr EDIT: Thanks to rmull from reddit, the code should be fixed now. For me, the output is: 55 exit 51 update 44 apt-get 39 [...Read more...]
The ext3 / ext4 file system used by Ubuntu / Debian is a solid file system with a good record of stability balanced with speed. It doesn’t really get fragmented because of intelligent code design, which prevents files from being saved to random sectors. However, it can be optimized by disabling the noatime feature which [...Read more...]
(Image source: Pidgin website) 1) Get the source code by going to the Pidgin site and downloading the Linux source. 2) Unpack the archive with Archive Manager or equivalent. 3) Cd (change directory) into the extracted directory. Run the following command in Terminal, but replace the_directory with the directory name. cd the_directory 4) Type in [...Read more...]
WHOIS is a tool that shows data about the site, such as who registered the domain, where they live, their phone number, etc. However, sometimes people register for domain protection so you can’t see all that info. If you wanted to access this info to see some info about the owner, you can do it [...Read more...]
Error: Couldn’t find the iPod firewire ID As far as I know, there is partial photo support as of SVN revision 1741. 2007-10-27 Jorg Schuler <jcsjcs at users.sourceforge.net> * src/itdb_device.c (ipod_classic_1_artwork_info) src/ithumb-writer.c (pack_RGB_888, pack_RGB_565, pack_RGB_555, pack_rec_RGB_555, ithumb_writer_write_thumbnail) src/db-image-parser.h (_888 definitions) src/itdb_device.h (RGB888 thumb format enum definitions) src/itdb_artwork.c (unpack_RGB_888, unpack_experimental, itdb_thumb_get_rgb_data) Partial support for photos on [...Read more...]