Dedicated Servers / Linux How to convert an ext3 partition to ext4? Answer: Well, this is actually not too hard and ext4 gives better performance in various cases, so an update to ext4 ...
Dedicated Servers / Linux / Debian How to compile a custom kernel in Debian Lenny / Etch? Answer: This is usually quite straight forward, since Debian brings utilities with it to do this:
aptitude install build-essential kernel-package fakeroot libncurses5-dev ...
Dedicated Servers / Linux How to duplicate / copy GPT partition table? Answer: sfdisk doesn´t do the trick on GPT tables, so this will not work.
This is also easy, we need to install
aptitude ...
General How to checkout a specific git tag? Answer: After you have created a local copy of the repository you can checkout a specif tag, so there you go:
git ...
General / Mac OS X How to run virt-manager on Mac OS X? Answer: There is no easy solution for this at the moment and there is no real alternative on Mac OS X ...
Virtualization / VMWare How do I resize a Virtual VMware Disk? Answer: Also that isn´t really hard, there is a tool for this, called vmware-vdiskmanager.
shut down the VM machine
locate the regarding disk ...
General / Android How to hide TabWidget of tabhost? Answer: Or how to hide the tabbar, tabgroup, whatever you may call it :)First of all, there are different ways to ...
Dedicated Servers / Daemon / qmail How do I set a smarthost in qmail? Answer: Hi Folks,this is also quite easy: echo ":HOSTNAME" >/var/qmail/control/smtproutes (e.g. echo ":mx1.gosi.at" >/var/qmail/control/smtproutes ) ...
General How to test STARTTLS on a mailserver? Answer: You might want to test if STARTTLS works on your setup, or maybe some other server and see the internals.From ...
Dedicated Servers / Linux How do I install rtorrent with xmlrpc? Answer: Hi there,
well on Debian (Etch/Lenny) this is not that hard:
aptitude install libsigc++-2.0-dev build-essential libncurses5-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libwww-dev libwww-ssl-dev subversion
for Etch:
aptitude install ...
Dedicated Servers / Linux How do I convert an ext2 to an ext3 file system? Answer:
first of all: check if your kernel supports ext3!(most kernels since 2006 do that anyhow, so you should be fine)
optional ...
Dedicated Servers / Daemon / squid How to setup a transparent proxy with squid? Answer:
There are a few ways to achieve a transparent proxy, the one I am describing here is with the Linux ...
General / iPhone How to jailbreak a iPhone 3Gs with iPhone OS 3.0? Answer: well, so far there are two solutions: purplera1n from geogot and redsn0w from the iphone-dev team.
resn0w:
browse to http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/126908912/redsn0w-in-june
read the text
do the magic!
purplera1n:
works ...
General / Mac OS X How to use suspend to disk in Mac OS X? Answer: Usually your Mac Book does a special thing, that is called "safe suspend", what happens here is that the RAM ...