Category Archives: Linux

From the Scientific Linux user group list 2008-02-01: Jan Iven to SCIENTIFIC-LIN. show details Feb 1 (3 days ago) FYI (and perhaps not directly related to the problem at hand, and certainly not to the Windows issue): DELL tried to … Continue reading →

This is quite thorough. http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f8.html Also I’ve referred to many times to the “Tips and Tricks” series. This has been up since Fedora 1, I think. http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/f8-tips.php

On x86_64, most plugins don’t work. I tried the wrapper thing and could not watch flash. Don’t want to remove firefox.x86_64, even though that’s what most people seem to do. Then they just run firefox.i386. Don’t want to do that … Continue reading →

From “http://www.somacon.com/p107.php” Notes for using GPG to encrypt and decrypt backup files GPG allows you to use public-private key encryption to encrypt and decrypt files on Windows and Linux. The benefit of public-private key encryption is that you can keep … Continue reading →

Mike Lord wrote 2007-08-29 > Read-error on swap-device (8:0:99814256) … Looks like a bad sector in the swap partition. You can probably repair it by using this sequence of commands: swapoff /dev/sdX /dev/sdX mkswap /dev/sdX swapon /dev/sdX If it recurs … Continue reading →