A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
This post desrcibes how to install “build-essentials” on CentOS/RedHat og Ubuntu/Debian. build-essentials provides the packages you need to build or compile source code (make and gcc) and create binary files. The build-essentials package is a quick way to install the packages needed to compile VMware Tools on a VMware guest. In Ubuntu $ sudo aptitude […]
You can use lspci -n to analyce what hardware is on your system. My new laptop a HP EliteBook 8540p gives the following output: 00:00.0 0600: 8086:0044 (rev 12) 00:01.0 0604: 8086:0045 (rev 12) 00:16.0 0780: 8086:3b64 (rev 06) 00:19.0 0200: 8086:10ea (rev 06) 00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:3b3c (rev 06) 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:3b56 (rev 06) 00:1c.0 […]
This is a short post that describes how to prepare your USB memory stick for a base installation of Debian Lenny. This will most likely also work on Debian based distributions like Ubuntu. Download the latest Debian boot.img.gz file # wget http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz Download the latest Debian netinst ISO image # wget http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Connect the USB […]
You can enable boolog in /etc/default/bootlogd BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes The log is saved in /var/log/boot This tip also applies to Ubuntu systems.
This is a little script I’ve written to correct all my image files since the EXIF timestamp information is one hour out of sync. The filenames have been renamed to comply to the EXIF information and has to be renamed again because of the one hour scew. The filename can look something like this 20080102-1201_DSC_0910.JPG […]