What to do when the root partition is full?

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I just upgraded from an older version of Lenny to latest. When the upgrade finished, an alert appeared noting that root partition is full. As a consequence of this problem (I think) I can’t save or print Open Office documents.
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Converting date and time to Unix epoch in Perl

Posted by suvi under Linux, Other

Today I was working on a script, and one of the subroutines needed simple seconds-based arithmetics with time. As you probably remember from my date and time in Unix scripts article, the easiest way to approach this task is to deal with the raw representation of date and time in Unix – the Unix [...]

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Making The Bash History More Useful

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Since I began programming I have worked on at least a hundred different computers: university workstations, my own computers, dozens of employer and client workstations. Each one had a history file loaded with commands that I begged, borrowed, stole, sweated and cried for. Countless hours of work now long gone or rotting somewhere in a [...]

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Learning LaTeX

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LaTeX is a document preparation system/markup language. LaTeX is most widely used by mathematicians, scientists, engineers, philosophers, scholars in academia and the commercial world, and other professionals. As a primary or intermediate format (e.g. translating DocBook and other XML-based formats to PDF), LaTeX is used because of the high quality of typesetting achievable by [...]

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BleachBit – Cleans unnecessary files to free disk space and maintain privacy

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BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. Rid your system of old clutter including cache, temporary files, cookies, and broken shortcuts. Designed for Linux systems, it wipes clean Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild, VIM, XChat, and more.
Read more at Ubuntu Geek

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Help On The Way: Five Great Linux Support Sites

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Linux support and documentation sites are a dime a dozen — and some aren’t worth much more than that. Here are a few sites that really give you your money’s worth . . . or at least they would, if most of the content wasn’t already free.
This certainly isn’t a complete list of quality online [...]

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What to do if numeric id is shown instead of Unix username

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As you know, every file in your Unix OS belongs to some user and some group. It is very easy to confirm the ownership of any file because user id and group id which own the file are always linked to the file. However, sometimes you can’t tell which user owns the file, and today [...]

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Remote Display of the X Protocol

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The X Protocol
In X the X client, which is the application is completely separate from the display which is the X server.
On a computer the X clients and the X server still use the X protocol but they are using it on Unix domain sockets which are faster than network sockets. Each managed
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Convert DAA to ISO Disk Images in Linux

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Ever acquired a .daa disk image and been unable to burn it? DAA is the proprietary format of PowerISO – I’m not really a fan of proprietary formats of anything, and would rather have the disk as an ISO image. The PowerISO download page has a conversion tool for Linux which can be used [...]

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Managing Websites with Git

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Let’s say you have a local Git repository on your workstation
containing the source for a statically-generated website. You also
have the origin repository stored on a server somewhere that also
serves the website. The goal is to be able to edit files on the
workstation and have the website update automatically once changes are
pushed to the [...]

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NIC Bonding On Slackware 12.1

Posted by suvi under Linux, Other

I was standing in front of a problem while I built a NFS Storage
Server. It is necessary for me to have redundancy in every point of
view. I solved all redundancy issues I had by using server hardware
with redundant power supplies, a Raid 1+ 0 Raid array and two UPS’s one
for each power supply. The only [...]

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ccd2iso – Convert CloneCD disc image (.img) format to standard ISO (.iso)

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If you want to convert .img to .iso file you need to use ccd2iso.This converts CD backup files created using the non-free CloneCD program to a format understood by most Free Software CD writing programs.
Read more at Ubuntu Geek

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Graphical Remote Control Desktops for Linux, part 3

Posted by suvi under Linux, Other

Thursday, November 6, 2008 04:53:41 PM
First you may wish to read part 1 and part 2.
Create NX Server keys:
# /usr/NX/scripts/setup/nxserver -keygen
The critical output from your viewpoint is:
NX> 704 Keys updated. NX clients should now use key:
NX> 704 /usr/NX/share/keys/default.id_dsa.key
NX> 704 to get connected to this NX server.
Now you should copy the encryption key to a more [...]

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11 Simple Ways To Recover Your Screen on Linux and Unix

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More ways to recover your Linux or Unix terminal session, with reader contributions! If you’re one of the many readers who submit a comment now and again (and even if you aren’t , today’s post is an homage to your helpful and insightful suggestions and tips. Some of you reading this right now may [...]

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Manipulating CD/DVD images with AcetoneISO2

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Burning discs reliably ceased to be an area of concern for Linux a long time ago, thanks to tools such as K3b and GnomeBaker. Another tool, AcetoneISO2, aims to be the Swiss army knife at managing disc images. This utility can convert many different image formats, such as .nrg, .bin, and .img, to ISO, and [...]

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