http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/ 2012-02-05T18:40:28+00:00 http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/ http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-02-01T09:23:43+00:00 robm http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/lvm_recovery?rev=1328088223&do=diff So I upgraded Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 11.10. When the system boots it says it cannot mount /store, my 960GB RAID+LVM file-system. That the one that holds over 10 years of personal photographs and such. :-( About the file-system: ''store'' There are many layers of indirection between the file-system and the physical storage when using LVM or RAID. When using both, the number of layers can seem excessive. Here's a diagram of the layers involved in my (lost) setup: text/html 2012-01-27T09:37:54+00:00 robm http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/index2.htm?rev=1327657074&do=diff If you're looking for the “crappy flash intro page” mentioned in an AnimeSoc forum, you'll be pleased to know it's not gone: <http://old.robmeerman.co.uk/> text/html 2011-10-23T14:31:56+00:00 robm http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix?rev=1319380316&do=diff I run Linux at home, and use it constantly at work. On the those few occasions then I have to work on a Windows box I use Cygwin (a unix-like shell for Windows(TM)). Note: This are also includes web-related things, such as Apache, which arn't really specific to unix & linux systems text/html 2011-07-18T07:33:01+00:00 robm http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/gnome?rev=1310974381&do=diff Clock Format (Adapted from <http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/10/how-to-customize-the-clock-applet-in-ubuntu/>) # gconf-editor:/apps/panel/applets/clock_screen0/prefs/custom_format ^{<span rise="0" font_desc="ubuntu 10" weight="normal"><span weight="bold">%H:%M</span> %z</span>}%n_{<span font_desc="ubuntu 7.5">%Y-%m-%d | %Ywk%V</span>} # gconf-editor:/apps/panel/applets/clock_screen0/prefs/format custom text/html 2011-05-28T14:53:46+00:00 robm http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/xbmc?rev=1306594426&do=diff <http://xbmc.org/> Xbox Media Center is an open-source “home theatre PC” project that was originally developed for Microsoft's first Xbox console (hacked to run Linux of course). It has since been ported to run on ordinary desktop Linux and even Windows and Mac. text/html 2011-05-03T14:30:57+00:00 robm http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/coding/version_control/git-svn?rev=1304433057&do=diff GIT can interact with a SubVersion repository. This is my “Quick-Reference” page for doing just that. Interacting with the SVN central repository SVN GIT svn up git svn rebase svn commit git svn dcommit svn log git svn log svn blame git svn blame svn info git svn info svn checkout git svn clone svn proplist git svn proplist svn propget git svn propget Interacting with the local GIT archive SVN GIT Notes svn up git rebase Only applicable when merging to/from other local … text/html 2011-04-27T21:05:50+00:00 robm http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/flash?rev=1303938350&do=diff <http://blog.killtheradio.net/technology/slow-flash-in-ubuntu/> sudo mkdir /etc/adobe sudo echo "OverrideGPUValidation=1" >> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg sudo echo "EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1" >> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg sudo echo "WindowlessDisable=true" >> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg sudo echo "DisableMulticoreRenderer=true" >> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg In order for the above trick to work, you must RE-enable hardware acceleration in flash: right click on any flash video, go to “Settings” and check “Enable Hardware Acceler… text/html 2011-03-28T14:46:30+00:00 robm http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/coding/version_control/git?rev=1301323590&do=diff Colour <http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html> and <http://book.git-scm.com/5_customizing_git.html> git config --global color.diff auto git config --global color.status auto git config --global color.branch auto git config --global color.interactive auto text/html 2011-03-15T19:40:31+00:00 robm http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/coding?rev=1300218031&do=diff * Version Control --- Documents my attempt to switch from SVN to GIT, or at least learn to use both * Utilities --- Collection of scripts I've come to rely on * VIM & Source-code Navigating --- Notes on browsing source-code with VIM Anything code related I want to retain.