A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
This post came to life because I did not manager to get my newly aquired Raspberry Pi 512MB version revision 2 running raspbmc to play my MTS files without freeze/rebuffering. One solution was to overclock the Arm processor to 1000MHz, but then I struggled to find a way to get the CPU temperature down. The […]
I am running a virtualized Windows 8 installation on VMware Worlstation in Ubuntu 12.10 and this can be confusing since the window manager uses the same key as my Windows machine to open the launcher. Therefore I use to disable the super key in Ubuntu so that only my Windows machine responds to the key. […]
This is just a short note on how you can mount a UDF ISO-file in a Ubuntu console window. # sudo mount -t udf,iso13346 -o loop ISO-filename.iso mountpoint Remember to create the mountpoint folder before you try to mount the ISO file.
GNU ddrescue (gddrescue) is a linux data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (harddisc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. It can also be used as a forensic cloning tool. Installing gddrescue in Ubuntu linux # aptitude install gddrescue The command to […]
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 […]