A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
If you are using your Windows 7 and have a active wireless network, then the chances are that you are sharing your media files with DLNA enabled devices like smartphones, TVs with wireless access and media centers. This HOWTO describes how you can disable DLNA in Windows 7. Type “Manage advanced sharing settings” in the […]
This post is a short HOWTO and describes how you can install and run lsyncd to perform a rsync syncronization from local to a remote server using SSH. Lsyncd is a daemon to continuously synchronize directory trees and relies on inotify. If you need real live syncronization DRBD might be a better alternative since it […]
This is a easy way to combine/join/merge several .001 .002 .003 etc files to one file. # cat filename.avi.* > filename.avi The .001 .002 .003 files can be deleted after you have verfied that the files have merged together successfully to one file. If you were using Windows you would normally use a software like […]
This is a short HOWTO on disabling IP version 6 support on your ethernet devices like eth0 on Ubuntu 11.10. I guess you can do this on earlier version of Ubuntu as well. Add the following line to the end of the file /etc/sysctl.conf (as root or use sudo) net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 Run the following […]
This was a short bash script I wrote to help document some startup problems on a server. The script was grabbing screen dumps from iDRAC during boot on a RHEL6 server, but it can be used on other distributions as well since the console command xwd is common. #!/bin/bash # Description: # Grab screenshot of […]