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 […]
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Intel 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 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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