Category: Linux

Magic Ubuntu performance tip?

How often is is that you come across a simple tweak to your configuration file (/etc/hosts in this case) that claims to give you a noticeable performance increase, and with no discernable drawback? I was psyched to try this one...

LinuxRHEL

Mounting UFS partitions in Linux

My desktop machine at work is now running RHEL 4, but before that it ran FreeBSD 4.10 for a number of years and had three hard drives with UFS filesystems. When my box was converted over to Linux, I backed up the critical files...

DebianLinuxUbuntu

Fixing NO_PUBKEY 2E2BCDBCB38A8516 error from Oracle Debian repository

Folks running and Debian, Ubuntu, etc. may be aware that Oracle has a Debian repository for Oracle Express and other open-source software. If you weren't aware of it and wanted to use it, here's the magic line to add to...

Ubuntu

Working around an mzscheme install error in Ubuntu

Here's a minor fix for an mzscheme/slib snafu on Ubuntu Edgy Eft. (more…)...

LinuxUbuntu

Setting up a Linksys WUSB54GC WLAN adapter in Ubuntu

My Ubuntu box has always been networked via Ethernet, but lately I've been toying with the idea of moving the box and/or the wireless hardware to different rooms. Before doing that, I'd need to get it on the network via wireless....

Linux

Getting good performance out of USB hard drives in Linux

I recently bought two Western Digital MyBook 500 GB external USB 2.0 hard drives to house our CD collection ripped to FLAC. As they will be storing relatively small numbers of very large files, I opted to use a filesystem with a...

LinuxProgramming

Patch for GNU touch to add -p option, a la mkdir

The other day I realized that often when I'm using touch, I'd like it to have the ability to create ancestor directories that don't exist, a la mkdir -p. I quickly hacked together a shell script to do what I want. Then I thought...