Found this somewhere. Works for me. Section “ServerLayout” Identifier “BodhiZazen’s KVM xorg.conf” Screen 0 “Screen0” 0 0 InputDevice “Mouse0” “CorePointer” InputDevice “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard” EndSection Section “Module” Load “record” Load “dri” Load “extmod” Load “glx” Load “dbe” Load “dri2” EndSection Section “InputDevice” Identifier “Keyboard0” Driver “kbd” EndSection Section “InputDevice” Identifier “Mouse0” Driver “vmmouse” Option “Protocol” “SysMouse” […]
Several programs, like “timelimit” and “timeout”, exist to prevent a process from running for too long. However, if you want to do this on a box where neither is installed, there’s a way to do so with bash alone. Based on the original script I found at pixelbeat.org… #!/bin/sh # Execute a command with a […]
Accidentally stumbled across the “Debian Cheat Sheet” at http://carlo17.home.xs4all.nl/howto/debian.html (now dead – see pdf below) Finally some documentation on why the heck pinning with “Package: *” and “Package: mypackage” doesn’t mix well, and other useful knowledge. In case the link goes dead, here’s a PDF: debian_cheat_sheet.pdf
This was blatantly stolen from technovelty, kept here because I hate it when my bookmarks die. For some reason, people seem to get this quite wrong a lot of the time. Certainly one should not be playing with symbols that start with __ unless you really know what you’re doing with them. ianw@lime:~/tmp/override$ cat override.c […]
I found these “misuse levels” over at technovelty, which they originally ripped from Rusty Russel’s Bleeding Edge Page, which is a page you should definitely check out if you haven’t. Anyway, I found these “misuse levels” both hilarious to read and at the same time somewhat concerning, as I started thinking “Where does my code […]
If you have a harddrive password (most laptops do this) or full disk encryption, you might not feel the need for an additional login after your system boots. On most Debian-based systems, TTY’s 1 through 6 are available after boot, while TTY 7 is used for Xorg. Therefore, I like to put my auto-login TTY […]
rdesktop on Linux will give this warning message when connecting to a Windows machine which has not been configured for 24-bit color RDP connections. This has, amongst other things, the effect of showing some horrible, jaggy desktop icons. See the pictures on the right for reference. On Vista, Windows 7 and later (?), the solution […]
Use RegEdit (start->run->”regedit”) to go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ Add, if one does not exist, a key called “SpecialAccounts” Under that, add a key called “UserList” Create new DWORD (32-bit) keys for each user you want to hide in your newly formed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\Userlist Make the name of each DWORD the EXACT username you want to […]
In my raid setup, I set up the partitions a certain way for running several mdadm raids on the same drive. My server currently boots off of two drives, sda and sdb, where sda1 and sdb1 are the root file system in raid 1 (mirror) and sda2 and sdb2 are (encrypted) swap in raid 0 […]
Note, this is not something I recommend doing. In fact, the only reason why I’m documenting it is that I am removing this solution from the last box I used to have it on. Anyway, edit the /etc/sudoers file (with visudo, as root), then add lines under the default one for root, like this: # […]