tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135407484780825262012-02-16T04:22:13.144-08:00All the Hoyt You NeedHoythttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207912453075247448noreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813540748478082526.post-35965976289786867982011-11-06T08:10:00.000-08:002011-11-06T09:07:17.478-08:00

Part of the fun of Linux, for me at least, is the ability to fix things when they go wrong. And things generally go wrong when you don't follow the advice of conventional wisdom. Plus, my personal mantra is "fix it until it breaks".One of those great pieces of common wisdom when discussing Mandriva is that you only upgrade within major versions, like from Mandriva 2010.1 to 2010.2, but when

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There are two things that can help you to have some fun with Linux.The first is VirtualBox. Since you are not using it for commercial purposes, you may download and install the full-featured version for your host operating system. If you are a MS Windows user curious about Linux, this is ideal for you. If you are a Linux user curious about different distros, this works as well.After you install

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The first release of Mageia 1 is out. You can download it from here and read the release notes here.If you've used Mandriva Linux, you'll feel right at home with Mageia. Mandriva has always had a reputation of working well for both the novice user and the power user. Installation is typically easy and hardware support is among the best of any distro. The user and administrative tools are

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I'm always looking for ways to speed up my computer, especially when it comes to the boot process and loading applications. A good overall discussion or improving system performance is at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Maximizing_Performance, just remember that it focuses on the ArchLinux distro, not the Mandriva distro I use.READAHEADA useful utility is readahead. According to its manpage,

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I have a small auto shop and having Internet access there comes in handy when I need to find auto-related information, order parts or just surf the web and do some email. Until recently, I've used a EVDO modem and got 10x dial-up speeds, but at $65 a month, it just got to be too great an expense for such low speeds. My next-door neighbor came to the rescue and allowed me to share his fiber-optic

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Running msec on on of my Mandriva machines turned up a number of world-writable files. These are potential security problems, especially on a machine that faces the Internet. The obvious solution was to use chmod to remove any world writable permissions.But there's the problem. The chmod command has a recursive directive, -R, that would work except that it would change permissions on the

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I have always enjoyed computer games that are out of the ordinary. Postal2 by Running With Scissors is certainly that. It is both amusing and offensive in a very politically incorrect way, featuring Gary Coleman, the Taliban and dead cow heads.At postal2.maximumhoyt.com, I am in the process of documenting how to install and run the game on a Linux computer as well as run the win32-only 1409X

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The screen command has been very useful for running programs on remote machines because you can detach the sessions and log out of the remote machine and the application is still running remotely.It would be nice to do that with a graphical application since you can connect to a remote graphical application via X or VNC or similar applications, any graphical application terminates when you close

Hoythttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207912453075247448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813540748478082526.post-7913714793924526832010-06-20T11:35:00.000-07:002010-12-05T19:48:05.601-08:00

Mandriva InstantOn is a variant of their main distro based on their commercial product named "Mini". InstantOn is a boot-in-20-seconds minimalist Mandriva 2010.0-based distro aimed at providing a few applications (web browser, email, Skype, instant messaging, video and pictures) with a simple interface (just a few icons to single-click on).The InstantOn iso image is an install image which can be

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A number of applications are configured by default to invoke the sendmail application to send mail messages. Sendmail is, of course, the iconic UNIX command to send mail. But in many cases, sendmail is overkill and most systems provide a default lightweight command, /bin/mail, that can be used instead. Another alternative is Ssmtp.There are alternative applications for many standard applications

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I write this blog to keep track of things that interest me. I don't expect anybody to ever read it and, based on the volume of comments left here, nobody does. That, or I've nailed the subject so well that there is just nothing left to say about it.Well, imagine my surprise when I got an email message from the lovely Stacy Jeanne, a Tech Writer (it's in caps, so it must be a real job Mom!) with

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Slashdot ran a story about getting Quake2 running in a browser windows. That is very cool.There were installation instruction at quake2-gwt-port except the instruction were not for "Linux" but only for Linux distros that provide apt-get (probably Ubuntu). That is not cool at all. While it would have been possible for them to write their HOWTO instructions in a generic way (provide a list of all

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The best font-viewing experience occurs when the patented (by Apple) Bytecode Interpreter is enabled. Due to licensing restrictions it's not possible for many distros to ship it enabled, but it is perfectly permissible for you as an individual to enable it and use it.If you use Mandriva, you can add the PLF repository with (all one line):urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org

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It would be nice to use the Send Link feature of Firefox with GMail, but doesn't work here if you are already logged in.Using about:config,change the value of the GMail gecko.handlerService.schemes tohttps://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&tab=wm&ui=html&zy=l&bsv=1k96igf4806cy&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2&hl=en&

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Discussions suggest that a lot of Firefox's sluggishness on Linux (as compared to Windows) is due to Intel compiler profiling (maybe, but GCC offers profiling), compiler cpu optimizations (i386 vs. i686 -- not so much anymore; Mandriva compiles Firefox for i586 - see BONUS at the end) and Linux's use of pango, a library for laying out and rendering text with an emphasis on internationalization (

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My HP 1120NR uses the Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller which means that I can use kernel modesetting.This is how:In /boot/grub/menu.lst, delete any vga= entries.Add i915.modeset=1Reboot.Check to see if modesetting is enabled by looking for a value of modeset : 1 when you run the command get_module i915I also added the file /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf that contains the following

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GQView is an image browser that can easily be configured to use external applicatin to extend its functionality. In "Edit > Preferences > Editors" there are ten entries that can be used to identify and enter the command strings. GQView provides a few macros to assist you:Macro Description%f Inserts list of selected files, may occur only once.%p Command is executed once for each selected file,

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While I enjoy using Linux every day, most of my family continues to use Windows (mostly WinXP) and relies on me for tech support. I have done the usual things such as installing Firefox and MalwareBytes, but they still get some infections. That usually involves running a scanner over and over and some virii evade detection.F-Prot makes commercial virus scanners and has a free home version

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Plymouth is a new bootsplash application that replaces splashy for many distros like Fedora and Mandriva. There's not a lot of documentation on how to use it.The themes reside in /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ .You set the default theme with:# plymouth-set-default-plugin themenameor# plymouth-set-default-theme themenameThen execute:# /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrdto make it occur at

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I finally got tired of the frustration of trying to learn Ubuntu on theMini and also annoyed that HP failed to update their version of it sothat I could use my EVDO modem (which quit working after their mostrecent update. It's not that Ubuntu is bad, I'm just used to doing things on Mandriva/Fedora/RedHat systems.What prompted me tomake the change was the realization that I was not using the Mini

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One annoyance with gaming in Linux is the lack of an icon for MS Windows apps that run under WINE or Cedega. The Icon Archive is a resource for some game icons as well as icons images for other things.Mandriva (and other distros) provides the png2ico application, useful if you want to convert a .png image to .ico format for use as favicon.ico for your website.Mandriva (and other distros) provides

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In the BIOS, there is a table that configures/determines a number of hardware values for ACPI and your system to use.One of the features of ACPI is that the values and methods used can be differentiated at boot time depending on what OS you run. Each version of MS Windows has a unique identifier and while Linux can identify as "Linux", the Linux ACPI gurus have decided that Linux will always

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I use a Tyan MP2466 dual-proc motherboard and I've noticed something odd about it over the years. I have instability problems where it locks up so that only cycling the power switch will restore it. It seems related to video and USB devices and IRQ's, but maybe not. I've also dual-booted to WinXP to play some of my games that won't run in Linux and noticed that I never had the same instability

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The lspci and lsusb commands are familiar to me, but lsscsi was unfamiliar. Written by Doug Gilbert, it provides information about SCSI devices by scanning the sysfs pseudo file system. The author maintained a web page (now defunct) that provided useful information about lsscsi, including some detailed descriptions of the SCSI subsystem information available. Fortunately, a copy resides here.

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One of the most striking differences between UNIX and MS Windows is the copy and paste behavior using the mouse.This becomes an annoyance if you are used to the UNIX way of doing things and always forget to highlight-right-click-copy when using MS Windows.Andy Polyakov's True X-Mouse Gizmo allows UNIX-like copy-on-select behavior in MS Windows environments.The page also contains useful

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I have been using the IceWM window manager and have been exploring how to add functionality and usability to it since it presents as basic window manager. The homepage provides useful documentation and FAQs.By default, IceWm expects you to have traditional UNIX tools at hand and doesn't automatically provide for newer technologies like GMail. It would be nice for the mail icon to work with a

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I haven't used the KDE desktop since the release of KDE4, instead relying on IceWM. and while I may go back to it, I miss one of the desktop applets, kdict. Using it to check a definition, spelling, synonyms, etc. was very handy.Since I use Fierfox as my primary browser, it made sense to consider using a bookmarklet. Bookmarklets are small pieces of javascript code that can be treated as a

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My wife surprised me with an HP Mini 1120NR Mi Edition for an anniversary gift!While it runs Linux, it uses an HP-modified version of Ubuntu, which is a Debian-based Linux. Nothing wrong with that, except that Debian/Ubuntu organizes things differently than Mandriva/RedHat, so it took some getting used to.The first thing I did was to increase the memory from 1GB of RAM to 2GB of RAM, not that I

Hoythttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207912453075247448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813540748478082526.post-38092858688316204032009-05-04T13:36:00.000-07:002009-05-04T13:55:12.321-07:00

I wanted to upgrade to Mandriva 2009.1 and had the .iso image, but the checksum failed. Since I was at the garage and had only EVDO modem service, I didn't want to download the entire .iso again and I remembered that I could use rsync to "fix" the damaged .iso file.To avoid using bandwidth at the garage, I use a USB drive at home (where I have FIOSS) to mirror the current Mandriva repositories

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Recently having had an unpleasant experience with a rootkit that was installed in /var/tmp, better security measures were clearly needed.Unfortunately, /tmp and /var/tmp are world-writable by necessity and are the favorite target of rookit users. It would be nice to have some sort of protection on these directories and the easiest way is to mount a filesystem image using the loopback device and

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As you may be aware, ffmpeg now is at version 0.5Since an updated RPM package is not yet available, I decided to compile ffmpeg-0.5 on my Mandriva 2009.0 system to support all available codecs and optimize the binary for speed.A number of ffmpeg codec options are disabled by default because of copyright/patent issues making them not re-distributable. But as an individual, we can enable them and

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Binary CompressionIf you need to save space on your Flash-drive-based Linux OS. you might consider UPX, self-described as the "Ultimate Packer for eXecutables".UPX is free and provided under the terms of the GPL. It uses a proprietary compression algorithm, the NRV compression library, but can be used with reduced efficiency with the UCL compression library.It offers very fast in-place

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Here's an amusing way to tell someone, essentially, to RTFM.I saw this link in a Slashdot story about malware and virus removal, but the offered link was identified as a Linux solution.Anyway, it's easy to see how the URL is crafted, so now you can pimp slap someone who should have Googled it in the first place.http://lmgtfy.com/?q=live+cd+windows+antivirusAnd lmgtfy stands for "Let Me Google

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I was unaware of this interesting feature in Mandriva, which expanded its use in release 2006 after an assimilation of Connectiva practices. Mandriva now provides a few meta-packages, which are small RPM files that contain only the dependencies needed for the application(s) they address. The meta-packages all begin with the name task- and are found in the Main and Config repositories.For example,

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The popular Firefox web browser has a few "hidden" features accessed by the "about:" URL. MozillaZine has an article about them and the actual code can be viewed here.The about:robots URL is an Easter Egg, or hidden joke. Another Easter Egg was attempted but was thwarted: someone wanted to include an about:kitchensink joke. There is a humorous discussion here (Comments #119 and #120 are the most

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From Brett Charbeneau of the Tidewater UNIX Users Group:Verizon was adjusting the maximum transmission unit of allpackets on the fly on their routers - and they stopped doing that sometime this week. Some sites, Microsoft Update in specific, demand that the MTU be between 1400 and 1536 or they simply won't interact with a browser. Any browser. At all. Packets that have a frame size larger or

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Microsoft Outlook looks for a special email header, X-Message-Flag, and if found, will display a message to the user in the message dialog along with a red flag. If you mail client (MUA) permits the creation of custom headers, you can create an X-Message-Flag header and assign some arbitrary text string to it. Only users of Microsoft's Outlook will see the message.Some of the messages are funny,

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You know that there are lists of PCI and USB devices that Linux uses to identify those devices? The files containing the lists are named pci.ids and usb.ids.It seems that I have some hardware on my Linux box that is "unknown". How does that get fixed?Here's how to add new hardware to the list and how to get the most current lists to drop in you own Linux box.PCIThe list is maintained by The PCI

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A lot of the functionality of Linux is contained in the kernel modules. These small pieces of software link the Linux kernel to your hardware, but it's not all that easy to get information about them if you are having trouble with a particular module.The command lsmod will list all currently loaded modules.The command modinfo will list general information about a particular module.The command

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TPM, or Trusted Platform Module can be used to authenticate computer hardware or protect encrypted disks. A HOWTO can be found here.I stumbled upon this while looking at the parameters for the libata module. It has an option named allow_tpm which, when enabled (it's disabled by default) permits the use of the TPM modules and functions. It can be enabled with an entry in /etc/modprobe.conf as:

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Sadly and frustratingly, the Mandriva Linux wizard intended to set up Internet sharing, drakgw, is broken* and has not been well maintained. Until they fix it, here's how to do it by hand, assuming that ppp0 is your Internet-facing connection and eth0 connects to your local LAN. Thanks in part to mheanre and the folks at TWUUG.1. Mandriva uses shorewall as the default firewall. It needs to be

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The Tenberry DOS extender DOS4GW.EXE was used by many early DOS games. I still enjoy playing many of these games and DOS4GW is usable with DOSBox, so they can be played on Linux.However, the version of DOS4GW.EXE that was provided was whatever was current at the time. The most recent version that includes many bugfixes that possibly affected the games when used with DOSBox have been fixed in the

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Mandriva Linux package management has added some enhancements to their urpmi tool. One of the newest is the ability to remove 'orphaned' packages from the system. Orphans are rpm packages that were installed as a dependency for some other package and said other package has been removed, but the orphan remains.The file /var/lib/rpm/installed-through-deps.list contains a list of packages installed

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I'm setting up a webserver for my business and I need to email error messages and notifications to myself so I can keep track of things, but I don't have a sendmail or postfix installation for my domain and DO NOT want to futz with that.Thankfully, a minimal mail user agent is installed with Mandriva (and likely in many more variants of Linux as part of their base package) called mailx (and was

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