Category: Linux

tsocks

Someone at work pointed out a cool utility called tsocks. tsocks allows non-SOCKS-aware applications (e.g.: telnet, ssh, ftp, etc.) to use SOCKS without any modification. It does this by intercepting the calls that applications...

Linux

Fixing a jacked Control-C

I noticed Control-C had stopped working on my Linux box for killing foreground processes. I'm not sure how it happened but somehow my stty intr setting got set to Control-G. Here's how I diagnosed it and fixed it: $ stty speed...

Linux

Playing with Gentoo

Just for the heck of it, I setup a virtual machine with QEMU and installed Gentoo Linux in it. Gentoo is the distro for uberhackers - no fancy installers here; you do all the setup manually and you compile everything yourself...

Linux

Resizing a QEMU virtual machine, partition, and filesystem

I setup a QEMU virtual machine the other day so that I could play with Gentoo Linux, which we were talking about at work on Wednesday. Unfortunately, as I was halfway through the install process untarring the large Portage tree,...

DebianLinux

Building QEMU with KQEMU accelerator

Using some of the tips at this page, I was able to build QEMU along with the KQEMU accelerator kernel module on my Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) system. Performance is pretty impressive....

DebianGeneralLinux

Converting between Linux package formats with “alien”

So let's say I'm working on my box, which is running Ubuntu, a Debian-based distro, and I come across some nifty piece of software which is available in RPM format, but not in DEB format. What to do? Use a nifty Perl program...

DebianLinuxUbuntu

Want pain? Set up a printer in Linux

I just spent a frustrating couple of hours getting my Canon i950 printer to work in Ubuntu. Setting up Ubuntu was pretty easy but setting up the CUPS printing was a pain. In the end, I got most of the info I needed from this...