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My first encounter with kernel modules was when my systems running Fedora Core 5 started crashing after the kernel update to 2.6.18. Long story short, it was due to a bug in the cifs kernel module which was fixed after more than 100 e-mail exchanges with samba developers. The problem was solved, but there was [...]
Like many other people, I use Linux as a backup server. The other day, I noticed that daily incremental backup of one of the Windows machines was well over 1 GB even on the day the user was mostly idle. The only thing the user was doing was … e-mailing. Aha! (heard the bell?) It [...]
One of the many things I use Linux for at work is to edit movies. No, not that kind of movies you are thinking about … this is strictly for science work. Anyway, the first step is to transfer video from a camcorder connected through a firewire port using kino. I am doing this on [...]
While we are talking about colors … As you know, thunderbird has gobs of options you can play with. I usually do not care much about how it looks and just use the default settings. The only thing I have done was to change the background color of sub-windows. This was easily done by editing [...]
OpenSSH has built-in support to act as a SOCKS proxy. In my case, there are web sites I can access only from work computers and I need to get to them from home. So, I issue the command from my home computer: ssh -D 1080 my work IP However, I do not want to redirect [...]
If you often need to access files on a remote machine and do it by ssh login, there is a handy way – sshfs. Here is a simplified howto that works. (1) Set up the rpmforge repository if not done yet (see Installing RPMForge ) (2) Either use the dkms-fuse with the stock RHEL/CentOS kernel [...]
