Category Archives: Linux

Setting up file sharing on debian lenny

Posted on July 5, 2010 by admin

If you have installed Debian Lenny with file sharing (in the lenny installer), you will need to add users to that installation and specify folders that need to be shared, here i will show you how to add a user … Continue reading →

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Directory and sub directory sizes and disk usage

Posted on July 5, 2010 by admin

Although this belongs to the Linux Command Cheat Sheet, this post is here to list all the Directory / Sub Directory and Disk drive usage To begin with, if it is disk space you are looking for information about, the … Continue reading →

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how to mount a ram hard disk in Linux

Posted on February 1, 2010 by admin

In this post, i will show you how to create a very fast, 0 latency hard drive from the extra gigabyte or 2 on your system 1- You need to change the boot options to allow this… Since i use … Continue reading →

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installing Debian Lenny extra steps

Posted on February 1, 2010 by admin

This is how i install Debian lenny at the office on all computers NOTE: (192.168.2.133) has apt-cacher, my PC 192.168.2.106 has a php script that responds with the caller’s IP 1- Put the Lenny Mini-CD into the computer 2- Follow … Continue reading →

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MySQL Windows VS MySQL on Linux

Posted on January 29, 2010 by admin

Comming across Robin Schumacher’s “MySQL on Windows? Absolutely!” i have some stuff to say First, I absolutly LOVE windows on my Desktop, and i LOVE Linux on my servers, and i have nothing against windows servers or Linux Desktops, i … Continue reading →

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Multi Disk MySQL

Posted on December 4, 2009 by admin

For performance reasons, separating DBs to Multiple hard disks can be beneficial In Linux, when you want to include a directory for a database, you add a symbolic link ( Using the ln -s targetdir command), in Windows, there are … Continue reading →

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Linux Debian Lenny and apt-cacher

Posted on March 20, 2009 by admin

Mama i’m comming home Back to Debian, as when i thought about it, i Don’t really like Ubuntu, what has it added, i still don’t know the difference between UBUNTU and Debian, Debian keeps a legal document that promises to … Continue reading →

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lenny on ubuntu hardy 8.04 with xen paravirtualised

Posted on February 26, 2009 by admin

While i find out how it can be done paravirtualised, i will be intalling it HVM, then i will keep you posted on how i will convert it to a paravirtualised system as soon as i do, Here i will … Continue reading →

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S.M.A.R.T (SMART) data of hard drives under linux

Posted on February 26, 2009 by admin

The results of the commands on this post are Here On windows, You can use speedfan, under linux you can read the smart data as follows Use the smartctl command 1- Checking for smart support, (All recent hard drives have … Continue reading →

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Debian 5 lenny is out and i can’t find Synaptics !

Posted on February 22, 2009 by admin

So, ALT+F2 then gksudo synaptics… sometimes i get the message you can run synaptics without a password, but synaptics does not show up, aptitude is there, but where is synaptics ? Anyway, i am glad lenny is out, i have … Continue reading →

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