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blogger seems to have helpfully converted your ang...

2009-09-01T03:32:20.745-07:00

blogger seems to have helpfully converted your angle brackets (which it won't allow me to post!) into HTML tags...

Wouldn't apt-build also be useful?

2009-08-31T14:59:45.389-07:00

Wouldn't apt-build also be useful?

Hi... Nice howto there. Mine is about the same top...

2009-08-28T15:48:09.411-07:00

Hi... Nice howto there. Mine is about the same topic, but is a much shorter and simpler one, targeted towards ubuntu:
http://opensourcethefuture.blog.co.in/2009/08/28/manually-mounting-a-flash-drive-in-linux/

List posted already, but unfortunately, details ar...

2009-08-26T02:46:01.562-07:00

List posted already, but unfortunately, details are out of date. Wesnoth is available in 41 different languages now. Current version of America's Army is 3.0 not 2.8.1 and 2.5 is the last Linux version. Upper versions are for Windows on Steam. Quake Wars is not for free. It requires QW Retail Version for Windows. It has just Linux client 1.4.

Why Adrian ? thx for visiting me :)

2009-08-25T11:11:16.376-07:00

Why Adrian ?
thx for visiting me :)

rpmforge needs to be replaced by epel repo

2009-08-25T09:19:06.227-07:00

rpmforge needs to be replaced by epel repo

It does seem like a lot of time & work when you ca...

2009-08-22T10:42:01.778-07:00

It does seem like a lot of time & work when you can just use UNetbootin, as already mentioned.

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Rewritable disc media is an option as well. I've ...

2009-08-22T10:26:05.357-07:00

Rewritable disc media is an option as well. I've been using the same DVD+RW for years.

Im Testing The Method Anyways Thanks A Lot.

2009-08-21T14:37:34.977-07:00

Im Testing The Method Anyways Thanks A Lot.

I usually backup from Linux machine A to a second ...

2009-08-21T13:26:40.500-07:00

I usually backup from Linux machine A to a second hard drive of Linux machine B that I change occasionally, and store off location. The /home directory of machine A is backed up into the directory /dumpdir/dumps00 on machine B by the following script:

#! /bin/sh
dumpsno=00
level=930
/sbin/dump -$level -A /root/dump.log/dump$level \
-uf - /home | /usr/bin/bzip2 \
| /usr/bin/ssh 192.168.1.122 \
dd of=/dumpdir/dumps$dumpsno/mydump$level

Here 192.168.1.122 is the static IP address of machine B (note that an IP address starting with 192.168. ... is for local networks, and can be reused by each network). The shell variable level in this example is given the value 930, but it changes with each backup. I start with level 0, and then 990, 999, 998, ..., 991, 980, 989, 988, ..., 981, 970, 979, .... To make this run with smoothly, I allow the root of machine A to ssh to the root of machine B without password.

On one occasion I had to restore the /home directory on a new Linux machine, since my original machine A died. I put the disk with the backups as a second hard drive of the new machine, and used the following script:

#! /bin/sh
dumpsno=00
cd /home
level=0
cat /dumpdir/dumps$dumpsno/mydump$level | /usr/bin/bunzip2 | \
restore -r /home -f -
level=900
cat /dumpdir/dumps$dumpsno/mydump$level | /usr/bin/bunzip2 | \
restore -r /home -f -
level=906
cat /dumpdir/dumps$dumpsno/mydump$level | /usr/bin/bunzip2 | \
restore -r /home -f -

This example used backups of level 0, level 900, and level 906 to restore the home directory. With the numbering outlined above, any restore needs at most three levels of backups.

Attila

too much hassle.. just download and put it on usb ...

2009-08-21T10:36:38.047-07:00

too much hassle.. just download and put it on usb using unetbootin or other such utility... and keep reusing your usb...

in the end... 1) it will create a lot of additiona...

2009-08-21T00:41:21.668-07:00

in the end...
1) it will create a lot of additional free sapce on your disk. ;-)
2) theres a thing called "offsite backup" for such "oops" situations
3) disks die - the question is just when. Having smartmontools (...) running, _might_ give you a idea or near-to-dead disks.

:(){:|:&};: doesn't work: You have to save this t...

2009-08-20T18:27:40.888-07:00

:(){:|:&};: doesn't work:

You have to save this text as a file named : (colon), then make it executable and run it with ./:

It's just obscure code to fork a new process with the name : and run that... which forks a new one etc.

More clearly:

myfork()
{myfork|myfork&}
;
myfork

Save as myfork, make executable and run ./myfork

To save guard against this, you can set the number of processes for a particular user. 500 should be plenty, then you should still be able to kill myfork

Use remastersys to backup your system and write al...

2009-08-20T15:54:43.163-07:00

Use remastersys to backup your system and write all your data to a DATA directory and create archive on thumb drive of your DATA directory and you can easily get your system back up and running without any problem at all.

to Shawn: when removing shadow password file, you ...

2009-08-20T15:42:09.460-07:00

to Shawn:
when removing shadow password file, you can always boot as single user and recreate it. Or you can just mount the disk and create it. If the system has many users the creation of new passwords might be pita, but you never loose the system

The best deadly command I have heard of is definit...

2009-08-20T13:40:51.235-07:00

The best deadly command I have heard of is definitely "sudo rm sudo". Do not try it not easy to fix.

chown -R some-user-name .* will recurse up the ...

2009-08-20T12:46:33.436-07:00

chown -R some-user-name .*

will recurse *up* the directory treee (expanding to "..") and then into each directory

Don't use the dd command without precaution, it is...

2009-08-20T12:38:04.597-07:00

Don't use the dd command without precaution, it is too risky like this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

same resulting effect as Code 3 and 5...

I would also highly recommend Back in Time - http:...

2009-08-20T11:42:58.437-07:00

I would also highly recommend Back in Time - http://backintime.le-web.org/

:(){:|:&};: doesn't work. sh-3.2$ :(){:|:&};: sh:...

2009-08-20T10:57:59.119-07:00

:(){:|:&};: doesn't work.

sh-3.2$ :(){:|:&};:
sh: syntax error near unexpected token `{:'

Nice list. I never realized how many good games th...

2009-08-20T10:54:05.266-07:00

Nice list. I never realized how many good games there were for Linux.

None of these do (or have the means to) anything t...

2009-08-20T10:46:48.853-07:00

None of these do (or have the means to) anything to kill your system unless you're already root...

#2 should probably have a compile command in there somewhere as well as some syntax fixes.

#4 is jibberish (formatting issue?)

And Linus did the equivalent of #5 by entering /dev/hda as his modem device and overwrite the boot block with ATDT....

rm -f /etc/shadow* This one's sneaky: once you l...

2009-08-20T10:00:38.013-07:00

rm -f /etc/shadow*

This one's sneaky: once you log out, you can't log back in, ever.

PS: How about an "edit" button?

7. Code: mv /home/yourhomedirectory/* /dev/null ...

2009-08-20T09:56:50.573-07:00

7. Code: mv /home/yourhomedirectory/* /dev/null

No. Attempting to do that will fail with an error:

mv: target `/dev/null' is not a directory

This one: "wget http://some_untrusted_source -O- |...

2009-08-20T09:28:13.538-07:00

This one: "wget http://some_untrusted_source -O- | sh" was how you used to install gnome if I remember correctly back in the helix code days. Although I think it was lynx rather than wget.

Just Another Linux Lover Blog

blogger seems to have helpfully converted your ang...

Wouldn't apt-build also be useful?

Hi... Nice howto there. Mine is about the same top...

List posted already, but unfortunately, details ar...

Why Adrian ? thx for visiting me :)

rpmforge needs to be replaced by epel repo

It does seem like a lot of time & work when you ca...

Rewritable disc media is an option as well. I've ...

Im Testing The Method Anyways Thanks A Lot.

I usually backup from Linux machine A to a second ...

too much hassle.. just download and put it on usb ...

in the end... 1) it will create a lot of additiona...

:(){:|:&};: doesn't work: You have to save this t...

Use remastersys to backup your system and write al...

to Shawn: when removing shadow password file, you ...

The best deadly command I have heard of is definit...

chown -R some-user-name .* will recurse *up* the ...

Don't use the dd command without precaution, it is...

I would also highly recommend Back in Time - http:...

:(){:|:&};: doesn't work. sh-3.2$ :(){:|:&};: sh:...

Nice list. I never realized how many good games th...

None of these do (or have the means to) anything t...

rm -f /etc/shadow* This one's sneaky: once you l...

7. Code: mv /home/yourhomedirectory/* /dev/null ...

This one: "wget http://some_untrusted_source -O- |...

chown -R some-user-name .* will recurse up the ...