The Past I used to run FreeBSD 5 and 6 about eight years ago on a Pentium III 900MHz machine with maybe 768MB RAM. It was very slow but after a lot of tinkering with the kernel I got it to boot and run very nicely. Fluxbox was the window …

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Do you print pictures or keep all of them online? What about if you've written a lot of text on some obscure blog on the Intertubez. What if something happens and you can't retrieve it? Maybe this is just because I just started reading a post-apocalypsian book where an EMP …

Trying out osol-dev-134-x86.iso in vmware workstation. You can download it from here: (genunix.org doesn't work anymore - here is another place: http://okcosug.org/. Update 201308 this also broke. You can now use http://virtualboxes.org/images/opensolaris/) Host OS: Core i7 with Windows x64. 1 core and 1300MB …

This is how to create simple RRD graphs using one data source that can be 0 and above. It is not an "ever increasing" counter. It will look like this: 1. Create the rrd database I wrote this down in a .sh file so I can go back later and …

Not allowing root to log in By default sshd is running on SL6 and you can ssh in with 'root'. Probably a good idea to change this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config permitrootlogin no But first, create a user that can log in. useradd mart passwd mart Then you can change …

Hey! This is used for me on my Linux workstation to get a notification if there is a new spotify release whenever I open a new terminal.. It would be applicable for other (probably also simple) pages that aren't updated frequently. Reason: http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify …

See the post for how to install spotify on a Linux Client (RHEL 6 x64 in my case). This post is for how to upgrade. 2012-02-01: Updated, added --nodeps to the rpm upgrade. 2013-01-08: This has been confirmed to work with spotify-0.8.8, updated typo in symlink part. Why …

VMWare Workstation 8 is required (doesn't work in 7). The x64 version (without developer tools) installs just fine on my Win7 x64 Core i7 machine with virtualization enabled in BIOS. Just disable the easy install bullcrap (you may have to remove the floppy drive). Boots fine and logs on, can …

Hey! You need premium for RHEL6 native client to work. If you get it to work with WINE it would work for free (as a plus you get it with the very annoying ads). My machine is a RHEL 6 64-bit. The only requirement I had was that I did …