Is my drive sleeping? user@host:~$ sudo hdparm -C /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: drive state is: standby Set my drive to sleep user@host:~$ sudo hdpar...

Last couple of months I've wanted my output format to look like this from find: Mon Feb 15 12:49:18 2010, 50356KB, ./files.txt This was ...

A good crontab summay. I was looking to redirect stderr to stdout and append to a file -- example */10 * * * * /bin/execute/this/script.sh 2...

One would hope to never need to know this, but an unfortunate soul who is trying to recover MySQL MyISAM tables may need this. http://forge....

From http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing Filenames A Movie Title.mpg Title s01e01 Subtitle.mpg Title 1x01 Subtitle.mpg Title...

To add a few more transcoding/decoding dependencies for your ubuntu squeezeserver install: sudo apt-get install faad flac lame mplayer ffmp...

Command-line: sudo netstat --tcp --udp --listening --program http://www.go2linux.org/which_service_or_program_is_listening_on_port

A quick 'one-liner' to sort the results of a du by size. from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=885344 sudo du -hx --max-dep...

The following is the link to how to configure this for Ubuntu: http://www.techthrob.com/2009/03/02/enabling-hardware-sensors-in-linux/

This little nugget worked for me to turn one of my existing mp3s into an iphone ringtone: http://www.ehow.com/how_2160460_custom-iphone-ring...

I used this Ubuntu NUT article as a basis for installing NUT on Ubuntu Server 9.04. I did install it command-line ( apt-get install nut) an...

A quick, easy to read review of a number of Linux popular distributions. http://www.osnews.com/story/22305/Linux_Distros_that_Don_t_Suck

The following is the documentation I used to configure MythTV on the following system: Motherboard: Asus M3N78-EM http://usa.asus.com/produc...

Yahoo developers have encapsulated much of their experience in optimizing web sites and serving web pages in a Firefox add-in. It is called...

All in the day of the life of an open source system. Often I find myself using the time machine to discover whether some new install is the ...

Last December after a significantly power outage, I purchased a Tripp Lite OMNI1000LCD USB UPS from Costco. I spent awhile integrating it w...

Several generations of the internet before today, one manually had to add each link to their blog template. In fact I posted about how to d...

For those shell experts this is obvious: emacs `find . -name *.java` vi `find . -name *.cpp` etc... Notice the back-quote which is one of th...

Last year I built a little tool that migrated blogs from LiveJournal to Blogger. It was aptly named lj2blogger. Today is the release of ve...

Since many of you have likely hit this blog while looking HOWTO tether a blackberry on Linux, it would be kind of me to point you to somewhe...

Of the several million people who have purchased this phone, I may have been one of the few that wanted to import a Comma Separated Value (C...

To re-iterate some other posts, I use the Oregon Scientific WMR-968 weather station with the wx200d version 1.3 ( Sourceforge link ). One ...

Recent experience with the Apple Graphite AirPort Base station and the newest MS OS Vista found me googling without an answer. This is lik...

Bumped into this because of a LinuxLore browser. D-link is now providing user interface emulators for many of its products. Not a bad idea ...

Occasionally Google indexes this blog and determines that my site has the default admin username and passwords (root, administrator, ...) l...

eclean can be your friend, it is a part of the gentoolkit. If you don't have the gentoolkit: emerge gentoolkit. eclean can cleanup di...

My configuration HOST: Windows XP Guest: Linux Gentoo 2006.1 VMWARE Version: VMWare Server 1.0.2 build-39867 X Windows: 7.2 Desktop Environm...

My configuration HOST: Windows XP Guest: Linux Gentoo 2006.1 VMWARE Version: VMWare Server 1.0.2 build-39867 First off, the copy and paste i...

In the quest to turn the data into information, many unique ideas as quickly formed when someone integrates two or more internet APIs these ...

One of the advantages to having a Blackberry phone is the built-in ability to connect your PC/laptop to the internet via the phone. Now the...

At work I end up living within Visual Studios 6.0 for long durations. These below are probably my most used short-cuts. Failed compile? F4 ...

I am normally not one to get riled up, but I have to admit that the number of times I've seen the above dialog makes me ready to use wor...

All UPS units tend to have an alarm (also known as the beeper) that sounds when the power is removed from the unit. This alarm maybe valua...

In my current employment, I am typically remote "desktoped" (RDP'd) into several machines at the same time. The tool I use t...

To solve the always on storage, network attached storage [NAS], problem I choose to purchase the D-Link DSM-G600 device; in part because my ...

Sept 29, 2007 update - An updated tool (renamed to Blog2Blog)is available see this post for download. Regardless, We will keep this post a...

Getting a fine gift, A Kill-A-Watt device , from my Sister and Brother in-law last year meant I could measure the energy usage of my compute...

The below documents my configuration of a Tripp Lite OMNI1000LCD USB UPS to communicate with Gentoo Linux (2.6.17-gentoo-r8 kernel) in my h...