A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
This post is just a cut and paste job from the Ubuntu SwapFaq for my future reference Ubuntu installation. The swappiness parameter controls the tendency of the kernel to move processes out of physical memory and onto the swap disk. Because disks are much slower than RAM, this can lead to slower response times for […]
This is a short script I use to symlink all my JPG image files on my file server to a flat folder accessible to my DLNA enabled devices. My files are organized in year folders and under each year there are month folders: -2011 –2011-01 –2011-02 –2011-03 … -2012 –2012-01 I avoid duplicate symlinks by […]
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 […]