Ubuntu: Disable Bluetooth at startup
By default, Bluetooth is enabled at startup. You can switch this off by extending file /etc/init.d/rc.local with a line echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
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By default, Bluetooth is enabled at startup. You can switch this off by extending file /etc/init.d/rc.local with a line echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
This applies to a default (=debian-packages) installation of Xen on “squeeze” using LVM for storage management. Tested with these package versions: xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64: 4.0.1-5.5 xen-tools: 4.2-1 Choose a name for the DomU host and select the LVM volume group to be … Read More »
my way to conveniently convert an MPEG “Transport Stream” (TS) to a DVD: open the TS-file with avidemux choose “yes” to index the MPEG select “Auto” -> “Optical Disc” -> “DVD” click “save” to demux the MPEG-TS into an MPEG-PS … Read More »
This posting describes the steps required to build the Funambol add-on for Mozilla Thunderbird 3 on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). It is mostly based on Bas’ Blog entry . Part I: the prerequisites define the buildroot BASE=”${HOME}/buildenvs/mozbuild.maverick_amd64” install required packages … Read More »
hp-snmp-agents error: Service snmp has to be enabled to start service hp-snmp-agents If you get an error like: Setting up hp-snmp-agents (8.5.0.1.1-2) … insserv: Service snmp has to be enabled to start service hp-snmp-agents insserv: exiting now! update-rc.d: error: insserv … Read More »
might be interesting for the unfortunate minds that are stuck with one of those MacOS computers: HowTo: Make Ubuntu A Perfect Mac File Server And Time Machine Volume
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The X-Windows Disaster
to restore a dump from a MySQL database created on a debianish Linux system, just feed the dumped SQL to the command-line mysql client like this: mysql -u root -p < mysql-all-2010-03-28-0515.sql since the whole content of all MySQL databases … Read More »
examine the superblock of a device: mdadm —examine /dev/sdd1 re-assemble an array when autodetection fails: mdadm /dev/md0 —assemble —force /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/dm-6