Arghh… Another obstacle…
How to put the USB drive into stand-by mode, so it will spin down when not in use.
USB storage standby with Linux
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Category Archives: Computer geek stuff
I just can’t leave it alone
The server machine got a makeover.
New Mobo, cpu, and OS.
SSH
Reversing an ssh connection
This was all stolen from Hacktivate – Reversing an ssh connection. (I only pasted the contents here in case the site goes down)
Just brilliant… Continue reading
init script for SoftSqueeze
I wanted to not have to start SoftSqueeze manually every time I started the computer, so I decided to muddle with existing scripts and generate my own init.d script.
This script was the SlimServer scripts, modified to start SoftSqueezeHeadless.
Ruby
It has began. (the learning process, that is)
Setting eth0 settings from prompt
http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/networking/networkconfig.shtml
KWMedical Spa site re-design
The way it’s gonna work is like this:
Two tables. One table deals with the items, and the other deals with the prices.
In the item database, each item will get one row in the database. The row will include item title, description, and price field. Continue reading
unraring multiple subdirectories
I recently aquired the Futuram season 1-4 collection.
The folder structure was:
Season #
–Show number #
—-multi file rar archive
I really didn’t want to have to uncompress each episode individually, since there are (4 seasons x 12 episodes = 48) lots of shows. Very tedious.
So I set out to write a script to do this for me.
for dir in *; do for filename in *.rar; do unrar x $dir/$filename ../; done; done
May also be usefull:
find -type f -name '*.rar' -execdir unrar x {} \;
Virtualization… (VMWare or Xen)
After coming accross this site, I started getting ideas (oh ohh…)
VMWare Virtual Appliances Download Directory
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