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My posts on Bigsmoke's blog
I post mainly technology tips and tricks, usually in support of my own memory, on Bigsmoke's blog.
- Efficient scanning and storing of documents (2007-06-13)
- Getting your terminal unstuck (2008-01-13)
- Rolling back a failed rdiff-backup session on a full partition (2008-01-13)
- Mounting partititions residing inside a disk image (2008-07-09)
- Playing Quake3 in Linux with Skype or Teamspeak (2008-07-10)
- Setting up a domaincontroller with Samba (2008-07-10)
- Creating a bash fork bomb (2008-07-10)
- Crane camera shots with just a tripod (2008-07-30)
- Configuring a Debian satellite Exim server (2008-08-03)
- Disabling SSH shell access for SVN users on a Linux/Unix system (2008-08-04)
- PostgreSQL back-end for Ruby on Rails confusion (2008-08-28)
- Decoding djvu files on the command line (2008-09-01)
- Finding and deleting duplicate files (2008-12-28)
- Ultra Cheap dual Eizo monitor setup (2009-01-23)
- Clonezilla as disk imager (2009-02-05)
- Creating a custom device node for specific hardware with udev (2009-02-06)
- Silent change in URLs of Ruby on Rails svn repository (2009-02-19)
- Encoding a motion jpg video produced by a canon A430 to xvid (2009-03-31)
- Increasing (encrypted) disk image size with dd (2009-04-03)
- Adding locales in Ubuntu (2009-06-16)
- Correcting Spamassassins stale mirror configuration (2009-06-19)
- Really enabling portage compile cache (2009-06-19)
- Impossible to fix file collision when upgrading qt 4.3 to 4.5 (2009-06-19)
- Fixing “expected NAV packet but none found” error on some downloaded DVD’s (2009-06-19)
- Installing grub on RAID1 (2009-06-21)
- Xerox 7232 communication failure (2009-06-22)
- Setting up Rsync daemon (2009-07-15)
- APC CS-500 causes USB disruption (2009-08-09)
- Setting paper size in Mozilla products (2009-08-17)
- Change in law regarding cell phone contracts (2009-08-21)
- Expanded output in MySQL prompt (2009-08-23)
- Removing unwanted grey values in scanning white papers (2009-09-20)
- Bash quoting (2009-10-18)
- Samba rounds filesizes off to whole MB’s (2009-10-20)
- Permissions on a samba share (2009-10-20)
- Adding a recycle bin to a samba share (2009-11-23)
- Making sure virtual machine guests shut down properly on a Debian host (2009-12-09)
- Debian network bridge setup for kvm/qemu (2009-12-09)
- LDAP search filter for Thunderbird and Zimbra (2009-12-10)
- Bash script for sending SMS using Mollie (2009-12-12)
- Sending SMS notifications of md device failure (2009-12-12)
- Preventing NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts (2009-12-14)
- Using Fetchmail to deliver to another SMTP host and user (2009-12-14)
- My time compared to UTC (2009-12-16)
- Quickly removing and adding bootscripts in Debian (2009-12-21)
- Disabling Zimbra’s spam learning (2009-12-21)
- Iptables rule to block access to our IMAP server (2009-12-21)
- Finding out the UUID of partitions (2009-12-28)
- Creating a DRBD device (2009-12-28)
- Making Coyote Linux work with KPN ADSL (2009-12-29)
- UTP wiring (2009-12-30)
- Pasting in Vim (2010-01-03)
- My custom Linux environment (2010-01-04)
- Convenient iptables rules (2010-01-04)
- Changing lost MySQL root password (2010-01-11)
- Set proper origin domain for Zimbra server (2010-01-12)
- Scanning the entire network for machines with nmap (2010-01-13)
- Fixing spamassassin rule in Zimbra (2010-01-17)
- Configuring fetchmail to deliver to Zimbra with custom header added (2010-01-17)
- Lowering Bayes score for Zimbra’s Spamassassin config (2010-01-18)
- Disable Zimbra’s duplicate mail detection (2010-01-18)
- Configuring Nagios to check a HTTP host (2010-01-19)
- 666 posts on tweakers (2010-01-19)
- Adding Microsoft docx and similar to Mailscanner whitelist (2010-01-22)
- Configuring VPN server and client on Linux (2010-01-25)
- Debian volatile: keep fast moving packages working on Debian stable (2010-01-30)
- Configuring a static IP address on Debian (2010-01-31)
- Xen console (2010-01-31)
- Installing Xen with Lenny guest on a Debian machine (2010-01-31)
- Installing Windows on Xen (2010-01-31)
- Saving and loading iptables rules on Debian (2010-02-03)
- Preventing syntax errors with old shell scripts (2010-02-14)
- Default e-mail addresses for domains (2010-02-22)
- Creating an Unreal Tournament 99 server in Linux (2010-02-27)
- Enabling mplayers multithreading for HD video. (2010-02-28)
My posts on the Omega blog
Point Omega is about self-actualization, self-awareness and humanity's march toward enlightenment. To find out more about Omega, have a look at the Omega wiki.
- The exploration that awaits you (2008-01-23)
- The Ron Paul revolution (2008-01-23)
- Humbling on a universal scale (2008-01-30)
- Erin Pavlina about the law of attraction (2008-02-10)
- Ron Paul: Going the Distance (2008-02-13)
- Push the limits (2008-02-13)
- George Carlin about religion (2008-02-13)
- Rap with a message (2008-02-14)
- Humanity Lobotomy – The Importance of Net Neutrality (2008-03-07)
- Prices going up or Dollar going down (2008-03-18)