Posted in Reference on Oct 6th, 2008
If you’re connecting two machines with just a single network cable, like we did with parallell and serial cables back in the days, you’ve no doubt used a crossover cable. But why is this?
Posted in Reference on Oct 6th, 2008
Most linux kernels accept a “vga=” command line parameter, which will set the resolution to use during boot. This is a short list of video modes which can be used, given your kernel supports your video card well enough, and the video card can handle the resulution.
My computer has the correct resolution all the way [...]
Posted in Reference on Oct 5th, 2008
Short reference, but I always forget.
Go here: opera:config#BitTorrent|Enable
Posted in Reference on Oct 5th, 2008
To fetch Opera’s stored wand passwords, all you need is a new powerbutton. Don’t pay for this service!
http://operawiki.info/PowerButtons#retrievewand
Fetch that and use this new button instead of the wand when you want to recover a password you’ve saved with the wand.
Posted in Reference on Oct 5th, 2008
A short reference on how to install Opera on Debian etch.
Posted in Reference on Oct 5th, 2008
Stole this from http://www.fewt.com/2008/06/performance-tuning-vmware-server-on.html for personal reference.
Posted in Reference on Oct 5th, 2008
Sometimes it seems syslog is determined to spam the tty’s with useless information from the system logs. This happens on some systems, and I have yet to figure out why, because I do mostly the same install on all of them. Anyway, here’s how to get the damn things to stay in the log and [...]
Posted in Reference on Oct 5th, 2008
stolen from http://www.harshj.com/2007/02/06/configuring-the-broadcom-2045a-bluetooth-dongle-in-windows/ for personal reference
Posted in Reference on Oct 1st, 2008
For personal reference, this is where the damn pins go
Simple reference, moving a mysql database:
mysqldump -h <oldhostip/name> -u username -p[<password>] <databasename> > <dumpfilename>.sql
mysql -u<username> -p[<password>] < <dumpfilename>.sql
Note: The lack of spaces in some places of the commands. They are intended.
Note: Specifying the password after -p is []‘d, which means it’s optional.
Note: If you do enter a password on the command line, it will get [...]