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From the LVM HOWTO -

Logical volume management provides a higher-level view of the disk storage on a computer system than the traditional view of disks and partitions. This gives the system administrator much more flexibility in allocating storage to applications and users.
Storage volumes created under the control of the logical volume manager can be […]

Thanks to this link. touchpad “tap to click” disable.
I set the following in my xorg.conf:

Option “MaxTapTime” “0″

under the InputDevice Section
 
 

N10-003 is a really difficult to pass. It includes the finest parts of the older Network+ tests. The 1Y0-259 is a Citrix certification exam, which can be easily prepared with the […]

If you need to process a large number of files on the command line, you might get an error from bash (1), if the number of files are huge.
I needed to process around 13k HTML files, so my first move was to get all these files into a tar (1) file. The following command gives […]

Make use of bash substring removal

$ for i in *.jpg; do j=${i%.jpg}.png; convert $i $j; done

This, ${i%.jpg} strips the trailing “.jpg” substring from variable i
Need more? Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
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This is how I take a backup of our subversion repository.

$ svnadmin dump /var/repos > svn_repos_dump_date
$ gzip -9 svn_repos_dump_date

/var/repos is the path to the repository.
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ifrename (8) is a handy utility to assign consistent names to your network interfaces
My IBM ThinkPad has two network interfaces - ethernet and wireless. I normally use the wireless interface (eth1), but at boot time which hardware device actually picks up which device name is quite random.
I configured my /etc/iftab as follows:

# cat /etc/iftab
eth0 […]

Use oggenc

$ oggenc *.flac

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Released version 1.4 of ibmonitor after a gap of almost two years. Not many changes; don’t think it requires any more features.
But a minor aesthetic change can do wonders. Initially after invocation, there used to be a slight delay before the statistics could be seen on the screen. Well.. the delay is still there, but […]