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Backup MediaWiki
Database dump For downloadable dumps of Wikipedia's article database, see Wikipedia:Database download. For a description of the database format and fields, see database layout. To create your own dump of a local MediaWiki site, you can use the dumpBac...
How to resue your system when the kernel won't boot
SUSE Broken? Don’t fear the chroot ! Posted by johnlange on September 22, 2009 06:45 pm under SUSE, Tech Tip SUSE hasn’t let me down very often but recently I had a bad experience while applying some updates to an OpenSUSE laptop. There were quite a f...
Things to do after a fresh installation of OpenSUSE
This guide is a summary of the steps I take to customize a default installation of openSUSE. This particular guide was rewritten for openSUSE 11.2, but most stuff should be applicable to other versions as well. first: repos first, type # zypper lr -d ...
OpenSUSE 11.2 MP3 playback in Amarok
How to get MP3 support in Amarok: #zypper in libxine1-codecs
How to restore MBR on harddisk
MBR / Hard Disk Layout The MBR is the very first part of your hard disk stores the boot loader and the partition table. Basically it comes to this: The MBR is 512 bytes . . the first 446 bytes are for the boot loader, and the bytes from 446 to 512 are...
Clear recently used documents permanently in KDE4
To do this: solution: type in terminal rm ~/.kde4/share/apps/RecentDocuments/* chmod 000 ~/.kde4/share/apps/RecentDocuments The first line will clear the directory where the shortcuts to the recent files would be stored The second line will make the ...
How to automatically log in to remote ssh servers using public/private keypair
As a user: ~>ssh-keygen -t dsa and enter your way through the prompts The keys are stored in the .ssh/ directory in your home directory. -rw------- 1 pm users 668 2009-10-24 15:58 id_dsa -rw-r--r-- 1 pm users 601 2009-10-24 15:58 id_dsa.pub id_dsa...
Convert .img to .vdi for use with VirtualBox
VBoxManage convertfromraw -format VDI [filename].img [filename].vdi
ATI graphic chipset overview
From Phoronix forum: The proprietary drivers are developed internally and released as a single package. Open source drivers, on the other hand, are developed in public repositories with one repository (and driver) for each of the four main components....
Linux commandline tips 2
Command • apropos whatis • man -t man | ps2pdf - > man.pdf which command time command • time cat • nice info • renice 19 -p $$ dir navigation • cd - • cd (cd dir && command) • pushd . file searching • alias ...
Burning CD/DVD from CLI with wodim
List devices: #wodim --devices Check devices: #wodim -checkdrive Burn .ISO: #wodim dev=/dev/scd0 -burnfree -v -data bla.iso
How to make an encrypted directory
If you want to make an encrypted directory, for instance when you want to store private information, and you want to access it seamless on your computer, this is how to do it. It will be available after mounting it with a password. This wiki is not ab...
How to send mail via telnet to a server using SMTP commands
Sending an e-mail via Telnet In this document, we: shall use Telnet to connect to the SMTP server. shall give commands to the server, then type our e-mail, and finally tell the server, 'Okay, the e-mail is done. Send it. can then send more mails, or ...
Convert an AVCHD / MTS file to MP4 usinf ffmpeg
REDIRECT Convert an AVCHD / MTS file to MP4 using ffmpeg
How to repair a crashed table
I had a crashed searchindex table in my MediaWiki, so I: Connect to the server #mysql -u root -p Connect to the database mysql> use wikidb; check data mysql> check table searchindex; +--------------------+-------+----------+---------------------...
Updating OpenSUSE in-place using zypper dup
What Why When How If you want to upgrade your OpenSUSE while the system is running, you can use 'zypper dup' with these simple 5 steps. After the reboot, the system will be upgraded to the next version. We will be using the command line tool, because...
How to test network speed
Install iperf http://software.opensuse.org/search http://software.opensuse.org/search start on server: # iperf -s start on client: # iperf -c [ip.of.server.address] -r -t 10 -r: test reverse also -t: time
How to convert an existing ext3 filesystem to ext4
Dismount the filesystem tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/DEV e2fsck -fpDC0 /dev/DEV