RPM build environment structure
In order to safely build RPMS, we are going to setup a build environment. By default, the build environment is in /usr/src/rpm and requires you to be logged as root to build RPMS. This is dangerous because while you are logged as a superuser, you have too much potential to harm your system and a […]
Read MoreBefore Sunset
Yesterday I’ve seen ‘Before Sunset’ on HBO. Great movie by Richard Linklater. Nice love and romantic story with a nice conversation and compelling dialog by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy. I just remember that I’ve seen the story behind this sequel before, I’ve search my collections and find it : “Before Sunrise” 2005. In fact […]
Read MoreAnette vs Tarja
As you may already know somewhere around May 2007, Anette Olzon was announced as the new singer for Nightwish replacing Tarja Turunen as band vocalist. The band met Anette on her first visit to Finland earlier this year, and after going through over 2,000 applications, knew they had found a match. In an official statement […]
Read MoreKLIXs on TabletPC Amtek T770
Yesterday I received this tabletpc without an OS. You can find this tabletpc specification somewhere. The design itself was pretty neat and sleek with 7″ display, the button and mouse pointer device was easy to reach and operate. Sadly, this device using VIA Unichrome 9 that has no 3D accelerator hardware that can be configured […]
Read MoreIntel Classmate PC Launching
I have to flew away to Jakarta yesterday for CMPC Intel Launching at Novotel Hotel and also for my company press release on the same product at Hotel Nikko in the same day. What I didn’t realize is I have to create and remaster a distro under 12 hours. Sigh …, even though I know […]
Read MoreOrion 5 Band Parametric Equalizer
Here is my Orion 5 Band Parametric Equalizer after heavy mod. 😀 All caps were optimized the best on their category range, electrolytic for low range, MKM for midrange, and very low ESR caps for high range, also each caps were pre-selected by measuring the closest nearest value between left and right channel using LCR […]
Read Moreset date and time from konsole
Use the date command to display the current date and time or set the system date / time over ssh session. You can also run the date command from X terminal as root user. This is useful if the Linux server time and/or date is wrong, and you need to set it to new values […]
Read MoreUsing rsync to mirror data
Introduction This LinuxAnswer describes how to mirror 2 systems using rsync over ssh. I will only talk about a live server and a backup server where the backup server will connect to the live server to pull the data that is to be backed up. Assumptions 1) You know how to open up a terminal […]
Read MorePublic Key Authentication using ssh
Here is the how to setup a public key for ssh authentication. so you don’t have to login using root and keep the system secure. The other advantages (which I needed most) are you can run automated maintenance tasks/checks on other machines including rsync over ssh like I did. Ok. Let’s begin. 1. Create the […]
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