Posts Tagged ‘ linux ’

Make sensors report temperature on slacware64-current with an Intel I7 2600k

January 27, 2012
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For some reasons the required modules don’t get loaded. Add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules right above the line reading ### Mouse support: View Code BASH1 2 3 ### by SV for i2600k temperature /sbin/modprobe coretemp /sbin/modprobe pkgtemp Now sensors report the temperatures.

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Working mediatomb config.xml for Samsung UE37C5000

September 13, 2011
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I have a NAS and an Samsung UE37C5000 UPNP/DLNA enabled led TV. Streaming from the first to the second should be easy, right? Well after a few tweaks MediaTomb makes it possible. I don’t say this is the best configuration possible but it’s the one that works INCLUDING pause and fast forwarding. Relevant from...

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Make Joomla 1.0 work with PHP 5.3

June 23, 2011
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With the recent posts regarding resurrecting old stuff, recently I had to resurrect a Joomla 1.0 site. Soon enough I discovered that the home page doesn’t display correctly. No errors, just lots of white space . The problem is that Joomla 1.0 is not really made for PHP 5.3. Of course I could have...

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Shrink (resize) a LVM volume

May 17, 2011
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I found a lot of resources on resizing LVM volumes or volume groups. But resources on shrinking were a little scarce and I couldn’t easily find a simple step by step method listed, so here you go. Please note that the volume you intend to shrink must be unmounted. If you want to resize...

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How to mount a windows share (samba) from the linux command line

January 24, 2010
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As you know Linux does not use drive letters like Windows does. All files are organized under a big tree hierarchy. We use the mount command to mount partitions and this is the same command used to mount remote windows partition or windows shares. Please note that you’ll need to know the following: Windows...

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Slackware 13 is here

September 1, 2009
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Yupeee, a new toy. Slacware 13.0 is out, with an official and in sync 64bit version too. Finally upgraded to KDE 4.2.x. Get yours while it’s hot. And don’t forget to support the project by buying the dvd’s from the Slackware store. Have fun!

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I have a linux Jukebox ! [2011 update]

August 26, 2009
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Finally, after years of putting it away, after a few design changes and a fried motherboard I have a linux jukebox. Well, not a jukebox but more an internet radio. Check at the bottom for the latest updates. When I first had the ideea I noticed an old ~ ’50s Blaupunkt Radio my father...

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Recover your lost linux slackware root password

May 28, 2009
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I’m an avid Slackware user. It was the distro I started using back in ’98 and, even if I tried and used many others I still like it the most. Anyways these rules apply to many other flavours of linux. One of the problems I faced is needing to make changes on inherited machines...

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