Feb 27 2009
Packard Bell Easynote E6100 Graphic cards aren’t always detected by Linux. This can be a problem as many distributions only support graphic mode installation type, like Ubuntu, Fedora or Debian. This is the case of my Packard Bell Easynote E6100 and its onboard Via Unichrome card freezing on graphic mode startup. One solution is to […]
Jan 22 2009
To add a permanent static route in AIX, add the route command in the startup file /etc/rc.net: or use Smitty, AIX text interface to perform global system management (preferred): AIX Server.root / # smitty-> Communications applications and Services-> TCIP/IP-> Further Configuration-> Static Routes-> Add a Static RouteThen type in the new static route settings.
Jan 21 2009
This shell script finds duplicate files in a given directory comparing their (md5) checksum. This means the content is checked and is strictly identical, rather than the filename or date of creation. This is usually useful to delete large files. ‘Find’ command option -size can help speeding up and finding the largest duplicate files. […]
Dec 21 2008
Here’s a package managers basic commands quick reminder/comparative for (in this order) – Linux Debian/Ubuntu, – Linux Redhat/Suse and – Solaris/OpenSolaris. rpm and dpkg are basic package managers while yum (rpm) and apt-get/aptitude (dpkg) manage dependancies and (online) repositories. # List ALL installed packages dpkg –list rpm -qa | grep rpm pkginfo […]
Nov 15 2008
Even though GNU “make” utility retrieves a lot of information off the system it’s running on, many times I have to wait a long time to get binaries compiled. It seems “make” doesn’t always pick the best settings to compile applications. I searched how I could speed up compilation times and here are some interesting […]