Configuring the Broadcom 2045A Bluetooth Dongle in Windows
stolen from http://www.harshj.com/2007/02/06/configuring-the-broadcom-2045a-bluetooth-dongle-in-windows/ for personal reference
Author Archives: bolt
Screen size calculator
Today I found out I want to replace one of my 20″ 4:3 LCD screens with a widescreen, to watch movies on a bigger surface. However, I didn’t want to reduce my vertical screen space. What I mean is that a 20″ widescreen is, necessarily, shorter vertically than my 4:3 screen, meaning I get to […]
ATX power connector pinout
For personal reference, this is where the damn pins go
How to move a mysql database from one box to another
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 […]
GPG Error: The following signatures were invalid
debian-archive-keyring up to date? still get the error? here’s a tip: try without a transparent proxy (i had to flush the cache on mine)
CIFS VFS No response for cmd n mid…
On a few systems, I’ve noticed CIFS mounts have a tendency to lock up the system when transferring large files, or a shitload of small ones in quick succession. When this happens, the system may or may not completely lock up, and lines like these will appear in your syslog: Aug 1 22:58:16 dreadnought kernel: […]
Disable the “No mail” notification on machines which have no local mail
On machines which are set up to have no local mail and send all their messages to a smarthost, using e.g. exim4, the “No mail.” message at login is both unnecessary and annoying, because when things are set up correctly, there should never be any local mail in the first place. This can be remedied […]
Hardware clock fix for Debian on Mac Mini
On my Mac Mini, the hardware clock was seriously screwed up under Debian. The clock would set itself 1 hour back for each boot and cause all kinds of strange issues with cron when corrected. A small fix will remedy this situation. sudo vim /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh change ‘HWCLOCKPARS=‘ to ‘HWCLOCKPARS=”–directisa”‘ (note: that’s two dashes before directisa, […]
Disable Debian’s motd on login
Tired of seeing this? Linux ***** 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Fri Jun 6 22:22:11 UTC 2008 i686 The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable […]
Nifty linux oneliners
This is a list of nifty oneliners I often use and just as often forget. Now I have a place to jot them down.