In order to verify that two copies of a directory are equivalent there are different options: 1) diff – the easiest way diff -qr dir1 dir2 reports any differences in file contents in a similar way to md5sum. For more methods read on here:
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M$ Windows is well known for expanding quickly in size on the hard disk (as a virus someone would say) and requiring a full format and reinstall every 16 months or so since there is no way to clearly determine what the junk is (M$ Windows itself someone would say…). This is not the case [...]
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It’s been some time Zeroconf and Avahi have been implemented into linux, however most of the people (and tutorial out there) still deal with IP numbers, which is a pain when they often change. The following tasks may be a trivial however, having to manually seek the new local IP each time you connect the [...]
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Following Sun Microsystem acquisition by Oracle also VirtualBox releases signing key has been updated to reflect the new ownership. This would prompt you with error: W: A error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used.GPG error: http://download.virtualbox.org lucid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be [...]
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The following tutorial explains how to create a larger casper-rw device for your Ubuntu based flash drive install. This would enable you with more persistent storage space for saving changes. The following steps need to be performed from a different linux environment than the one you’re willing to modify. Either use an existing setup, a [...]
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It may happen to decide having a try with one of the many customized Ubuntu distributions available, but eventually deciding to convert it back to a standard Ubuntu setup without reinstalling the whole OS. Playing around a little bit with the installed software packages would probably lead you to remove those meta-packages that keep the [...]
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eee-control is so far the best utility for controlling Eee PC hardware under Linux. It definitely does its job, instead of the now obsolete not-working-at-all eee-applet program, and has is even better than eeepc-tray, whose development has now been explicitly stopped by its author, for a couple of reasons: has better hardware control for powersaving [...]
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A partire dalla versione ddi Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 il nuovo gestore dell’avvio GRUB2 viene installato di default sulle nuove installazioni (non negli aggiornamenti). GRUB2 presenta una serie di miglioramenti, tra cui il supporto nativo per una varietà maggiore di filesystem, una configurazione modulare, il supporto per il ripristino automatico delle impostazioni in caso di necessità [...]
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SquirrelMail is an OpenSource powerful yet easy to use webmail interface. Setting it up is extremely easy. Here I am going to cover just a few not so obvious aspects of the setup process. Download Squirrel Mail installation package from here:
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There is a very simple command that reinstalls all the distribution packages and reconfigures them automatically. This is particularly helpful when you have done a partial upgrade and eventually have broken the system dependencies tree. sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a since this command would take a lot of time to process (~1 hour) depending on your [...]
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