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Month: July 2013

  • turning an “ext2” or “ext3” file system into an “ext4” one

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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Converting_an_ext3_filesystem_to_ext4 root# tune2fs -j /dev/sdXY # add an ext3 journal, if we start with ext2 root# tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/sdXY root# e2fsck  -f /dev/sdXY # maybe you want to add …                            # “-C 0” : progress bar              …

  • Rick Sladkey’s NFS utility “showmount”

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    linuxreviews.org/man/showmount Rick Sladkey and Linux NFS [oreilly.com/openbook/linag2/book/ch14.html = Linux Network Administrator’s Guide, 2nd Edition] showmount is quite useful, if you want to examine the properties of NFS shares instead of just mounting it. I used it, when I found it troublesome to mount a share from a (Linux) virtual machine behind a NAT router (actually a VirtualBox…

  • NFS mount behind NAT (virtualbox)

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    NFS mount behind NAT (virtualbox) | The GNULinux Community Portal The situation and trouble described there is rather similar to my set-up (VirtualBox + NAT + Linux guest), just that my NFS server is a Synology DiskStation. I added “insecure” to the options of this share, switched off “Enable NFS” on the DiskStation, made sure…

  • the CPU usage of my openSUSE VM seemed abusive, elimated “Nepomuk Semantic Desktop”

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    I don’t think, I do make the intended use of the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop, so I prefer to switch the entire thing off. I couldn’t find the cause through “top”, but “pstree -p” showed a lot of processes with “nepomuk” in their names. A KDE search (KDE Start button, “Search”) for “nepomuk” helped. “Nepomuk Server…

  • InoReader is the best Google Reader replacement I came across

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    It resembles Google Reader really, really a lot. InoReader.com InoReader.com/forum the RSS Subscription Extension (by Google) (a Chrome / Chromium browser extension) lets you add a subscription to your InoReader

  • the Fink project

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fink fink.sf.net – I assume the best available link for downloading … I created an articled titled “problems with fink and latest Xcode on Mac OS X” on this blog, that may be worth having a look at https://www.curlie.org/en/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Mac_OS/Software/Open_Source/ packages I use: coreutils – you may want to add /sw/lib/coreutils/bin at the beginning of your PATH wget…

  • downloading Apple’s Xcode from the “Mac App Store”

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    Xcode Downloads and Resources – Apple Developer You decide, you need XCode, you are going to the Mac App Store, you are pressing the Install button, going to download 1.65 GB, and the only feedback you are getting for quite a while is the button saying “Installing“.

  • upgrading to Mac OS X Mountain Lion

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    starting with Mountain Lion X11 for Mac OS X is available on a separate website: xquartz.macosforge.org, support.apple.com/kb/HT5293 RCS binaries get provided in /Developer/usr/bin, but e.g. “rcsdiff” makes use of a hard-wired “co” by the full path of /usr/bin/co; my fix for this: I symlinked ../Developer/usr/bin/co to /usr/bin/co. you need XCode of course as a Fink user, you need to…

  • Mac OS X “Mountain Lion”, X11, the XQuartz project

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    support.apple.com/kb/HT5293:  About X11 and OS X Mountain Lion starting with Mountain Lion X11 for Mac OS X is available on a separate website: xquartz.macosforge.org