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Jerusalem Artichoke | my farm
I have strong interesting in two kinds of farms: E-farm (playing with IT toys) and Dirty Farm. The Dirty Farm, as a matter of fact, is my pure passion. I […]
Where are they?
A friend send me a set of great photos, various roads. I put them here to share, please point out where are they (in comments), enjoy!!
Cisco VPN on ubuntu
The work place VPN moved to Cisco VPN and kindly provides linux users with following parameters Connection Type: IPSEC Hostname: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Groupname: TheLocalGroup Group Secret: SecrectPass Use your username and […]
Delete duplicate messages in evolution and mutt
Mutt This nice fix was found here Simple steps: add following lines in your ~/.muttrc set sort=threads #set sort=reverse-date set auto_tag=yes set duplicate_threads = yes set move = yes macro […]
identify origin of a linux process
when a set of processes of the same command are running. Sometime you need to kill a particular one because of wrong parametesr used. The first task is identify the […]
Calibriate Android phone battery using “Battery Calibriation”
battery calibration is needed each time you flash a new custom Android ROM. The aim is to fully charge your battery, delete the batterystats.bin file and then unplug the phone […]
cut in Linux (nice but don’t cut your finger)
cut command- Divide a file into several parts Syntax: cut [OPTION]… [FILE]… Description: Prints selected parts of lines (of a text file), or, in other words, removes certain sections of […]
add swap file
Swap space is the area on a hard disk as a part of the Virtual Memory of your machine. Swap space temporarily holds inactive memory pages. Swap space is used […]
Password pretected files in Linux
In windows, zip can compresses, encrypts (password-protect) files. The same can be done in Linux, (even more) for eamples tar cvpf Pics.tar Pictures/ gpg -c -o Pics.tar.gpg Pics.tar or in […]
