Since Vista is out, the IT scene got a new buzzword: ReadyBoost – This thing should be able to speed up your vista box by adding the memory of an USB stick to your systems’ memory. But is this a real brand new concept? What happens: As far as I can see, vista creates an encrypted file for […]
Tag: linux
Dhclient, that bitch
Well. You are used to more beautiful words here, but that program caused some trouble in cooperation with the Networkmanager tool. The Story so far: I am using Networkmanager to configure my network interfaces due to the work. I usually change my network at least three times a day. As WLAN and linux can be a pain, I […]
Beep!! Beep!!
Linux can be annoying with all its bells and beeps, especially if you’re working on a console. But there is no need to kill a wire or smash the speaker to silence the computer. This is a nice way of doing so, without hardware modifications. Most reasons for beeps are tab complete beeps, as you are using the […]
Taken from RedHat
The LVM Package does not offer a great GUI for managing volumes. In fact, everything is to be done on CLI. RedHat did a nice GUI for Gnome. First of all, I searched a test install for the files to do me a tarball as I have seen a strange update filed as system-config-lvm-1.0.18-1.2.FC5.noarch.rpm – that’s a clue. […]
If things are working
If the PC is working and stable, tweak it. At the moment I am playing with LVM – logical volumes. That way I can resize my partitions the way I need them on the fly. If you want to do something advanced, move the root partition on a lvm volume. It works, if you do it right. A […]
There’s a new Filesystem in town: BTRFS
On the 12th of July Chris Mason mailed to the lkml.org mailinglist introducing his new project, a filesystem for a Datacenter, called BTRFS. Although we are not talking about a final version, the technical specifications are looking great. If you want to have a look at the current status, feel free to check out the downloads. Chris Mason […]