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HOWTO: Using wodim program to burn/write CDs and DVDs in Debian Linux

Admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:59:44 +0000

Purpose: In my earlier post, we saw 10 useful programs to burn CDs/DVDs in Linux amongst which cdrecord was one of them. In this blog post we will learn how to use the cdrecord program to burn CDs and DVDs. The package cdrecord is just a dumy package in Debian Lenny which provides wodim, the [...]

Apologize for the inconvenience

Admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:40:01 +0000

Dear readers/visitors, I would like to apologize for the inconvenience caused because of the website not available for few hours today. We migrated our blog site from one account to another one and hit few snags during the process. All is well now and we hope to continue to serve you as we have been [...]

TIP: Getting rid of initramfs trying to update a non-exsiting initrd file

Admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:36:00 +0000

Problem: If you have been playing around with your Debian system for a long time i.e. installing, purging, un-installing and re-installing them again you might end up in a situation where anytime you run a program, for example splashy, which triggers the initramfs-tools you might end up with the following message: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools [...]

TIP: 10 useful CD/DVD writing programs/software in Debian Linux

Admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:36:36 +0000

Purpose: In this post we will see some CDs/DVDs burning (or writing) software that are available in Debian Lenny. For a long time I have been dreading to burn CDs in Linux (don’t know why) and I always use to end up burning in Windows. Finally I decided to learn burning CDs/DVDs and here are [...]

Happy New Year 2010!

Admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:58:26 +0000

I know it’s been a long time (over a month) since I wrote a post on my blog due to my trip to India. Just wanted to wish all the readers and subscribers a very Happy New Year! Thank you all for your support! Random PostsHOWTO: Display ‘X Windows’ programs on remote machines by forwarding [...]

Initramfs and Initrd Series: Part 2 – What is initrd and similarities with initramfs

Admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:07:32 +0000

Welcome to part 2 of Initramfs and Initrd series. In Part 1 of this series we saw what is initramfs and how to compress and de-compress it. In this part we will see what is an initrd and some of the similarities between initramfs and initrd. So as mentioned in first part, initramfs replaced the [...]

Discussion: What processor type (family) to select for Intel Atom in Linux kernel config

Admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:01:34 +0000

So I am excited to start a new type of post, “Discussion” besides the regular INFO, HOWTO, TIP, etc. The purpose of such type of post is to generate a discussion regarding certain issues for which there is a no clear answers in the Linux community. In my past 4 years of Linux usage, I [...]

Initramfs and Initrd Series: Part 1 – Decompress and compress initramfs images

Admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:21:31 +0000

Purpose: We will learn how to decompress and then re-compress an initramfs image from your Debian or Ubuntu systems. I find the whole initramfs and initrd topic to be one of the most fascinating one in Linux. I always wanted to write a series of post on these topics and I think this might be [...]

HOWTO: Compiling Intel Atom Poulsbo GMA 500 graphics driver on Debian

Admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:20:32 +0000

Purpose: Finally here is a step-by-step guide to get the Intel Poulsbo (PSB) GMA 500 graphics driver working under Debian testing/unstable. Over the last 3 months or so since I wrote an introductory post regarding this whole issue, I have got several emails and comments with a request to put up such a guide. Sorry [...]

HOWTO: Enabling Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) in Debian Linux kernel

Admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:31:40 +0000

Purpose: So some of you must have heard about a new feature that got introduced since 2.6.29 Linux kernel known as Kernel Mode Setting (KMS).I will not go into the details about the benefits of KMS in this post but rather I will show you how to enable KMS on your Debian system. However I [...]

HOWTO: Tuning your MySQL database for indexing search results in MediaWiki

Admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:25:53 +0000

Purpose: The popular MySQL open source database suite is the back bone of a vast majority of LAMP type systems or rather system which requires web and database access. One such example is MediaWiki. Now MediaWiki has a very good default search engine including full-text search. However the other day, somebody informed me that they [...]

HOWTO: Installing, Configuring AWstats for Apache web server on Debian

Admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:23:53 +0000

Purpose: So I decided I need some kind of web statistics program for my Debian Lenny system which runs an Apache2 web server and a lot of other web-based application like MediaWiki, Mantis, etc. There are a lot of different programs that will let you view your web server statistics like Webalizer, AWstats, Visitors, etc. [...]

TIP: Resolving AWstats permission denied error by www-data cron job

Admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:08:48 +0000

So if you have installed AWstats, a web-statistic program, on your machine you would have noticed that the cron job that it sets by default does not work. Meaning that the statistics on your AWstats web page does not get updated. If you do a search on Internet, you will find that lot of Ubuntu [...]

HOWTO: Linking files from your Windows shared network drives in Wiki

Admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:47:52 +0000

Purpose: So let’s say that you have got your Linux based MediaWiki server going on your internal LAN in your office or corporate intranet. Let’s assume that your intranet is Windows server based which basically means that all the files that you access in your day-to-day work resides on Windows based server. Now one of [...]

Configure sendmail relay email server in Mediawiki on Debian

Admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:41:35 +0000

Purpose: So today we are going to learn how to configure the email relay server for your MediaWiki installation. There are many ways you can use the email feature in MediaWiki. We will take the simplest approach. But before we further dive into this topic we need to go over some basics of sending email [...]