http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/ 2026-04-30T05:47:05+00:00 http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/ http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2018-07-30T15:10:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/256colours?rev=1532963448&do=diff See also: * Colour in GIT Colour colour everywhere! 256 colour-mode for Linux consoles My day-to-day work on computers involves Linux consoles, lots of them. At a minimum I have a console for the machine I am doing my work on, but typically I'll be working across 3 or more hosts (my Windows workstation, my Linux workstation, a server I admin, the local cluster and a remote cluster), and almost certainly have more than one shell open per host. text/html 2011-01-30T17:13:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/asrock_ion330ht-bd?rev=1296407589&do=diff ASRock ION 330HT-BD My notes on getting my ASRock ION 330HT-BD “nettop” media PC working. Infrared Remote Control * Become root with sudo su, and remove cats from the vicinity of your keyboard * Install Linux Infra-Red Control with aptitude install lirc text/html 2009-12-11T00:36:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/debian?rev=1260491786&do=diff Rob's Personal Debian Etch Notes I keep some reminders to myself here about how I configured Debian on my system to overcome certain hardware issues. Scroll-Wheel Emulation on my Marble Mouse It took some doing to get my 4-button, no-scroll-wheel, trackball to work the way I wanted: Holding one button causes movements of the ball to be interpreted as scrolling, and the other 3 to behave as ordinary button on a 3-button mouse. text/html 2011-04-27T21:05:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/flash?rev=1303938350&do=diff Adobe Flash Player in Ubuntu <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 text/html 2018-10-04T14:37:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/gateway?rev=1538663860&do=diff Linux Gateway Due to the wholesome failure of my ISP to do things in a nice way my ADSL router was rendered useless and I was forced to either setup my own router or be content with a single PC on the internet in a house of 6 computers... I chose to setup my own gateway. text/html 2011-07-18T07:33:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/gnome?rev=1310974381&do=diff Gnome Desktop Stuff 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 2013-08-20T22:54:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/lvm_recovery?rev=1377039266&do=diff Recovering my lost data: LVM and RAID 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'' text/html 2007-04-27T00:23:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/medley?rev=1177633429&do=diff Rescuing a RAID-0 FAKE-RAID Array Recently, I zapped my precious motherboard with 220V, killing it in the process. I eventually got a replacement board (same make/model) and went about diagnosing the rest of my setup. Everything checked out except my 500GB RAID-0 array, controlled via my Gigabyte GA-7NNXP OnBoard SATA RAID controller (a Silicon Images 3112, aka Sil3112). The RAID controller correctly assembled the array text/html 2008-05-11T21:25:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/rc-scripts?rev=1210541137&do=diff rc-scripts This is a page for me to keep my .bashrc, .screenrc, .vimrc et al scripts. .screenrc Make the screen command have a pretty tab bar at the bottom, like so: [Screenshot of screen utility in use] There are three screens: * 0: “bash” * 1: “top” * 2: “Named Windows 2 text/html 2010-09-12T18:00:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/scanning?rev=1284314408&do=diff Scanning I scan all the paper documents I receive and file them digitally. This lets me get at them from anywhere, which in turn makes searching for a particular bit of info easier, especially when OCR is applied. This page holds my notes on getting things going, in case I have to reinstall. text/html 2013-10-13T12:43:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/traffic-shaping?rev=1381668236&do=diff Traffic Shaping * Limit a single app with the trickle package * See <https://github.com/meermanr/adsl> for my wondershaper script designed for a host with a single network adaptor (assumes you have control of your ADSL box) Force shaping onto someone else's network Here's a quick-and-dirty guide to how I hijacked my home network when I lived with some other students to force traffic shaping onto the entire network, since two of my housemates had gone away for the weekend and left their to… text/html 2007-04-27T00:23:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/unison?rev=1177633429&do=diff !!You may edit this page!! Using Unison with DokuWiki Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two or more file repositories, to be kept synchronised by detecting and then propagating changes between the repositories, no matter if they are different directories on the same disk, or on completely different filesystems on different machines. text/html 2023-05-30T09:30:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/usb_booting?rev=1685439019&do=diff USB Booting Enter GRUB and run: chainloader (hd1)+1 (Source: <http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?s=da398a4c6c795666e0b64146756c4bf6&showtopic=14168&view=findpost&p=140848>) Note that this requires your GRUB bootloader has been built with support for USB. If that's not the case I've heard that Plop Boot Manager can help. (I've not personally tried it.) text/html 2008-09-04T11:38:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/webmastering?rev=1220528310&do=diff Webmastering Websites have been a hobby of mine since I was about 15, and over time I've started to do some fairly advanced things to take care of simple, usually annoying, problems I encounter. This section is intended to serve as a reminder to myself of those tricks, and possibly of use to others as well. text/html 2009-12-20T20:19:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/wmii?rev=1261340353&do=diff Windows Manager Improved II (wmii) I've been experimenting with using wmii as my window manager in Ubuntu Karmic, without discarding all of the Gnome desktop features. * <http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2009/01/you-got-your-windowmaker-in-my-peanut.html> Creating ~/.wmii preferences # Boiler plate for Python support mkdir ~/.wmii cd ~/.wmii ln -s /etc/X11/wmii/python/pygmi pygmi ln -s /etc/X11/wmii/python/pyxp pyxp # Probably want to modify wmiirc.py (only clean way to alter the colours) … text/html 2009-07-03T18:18:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/x?rev=1246645094&do=diff My Perfect X11 Configuration [My physical setup] I have a dual-head nVidia GeForce 7300 GT video card. Attached to the VGA-connector is my regular PC monitor, and attached to the DVI-connector is my HDTV. The PC monitor is for regular use, while the HDTV is really just for watching videos. text/html 2011-05-28T14:53:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/xbmc?rev=1306594426&do=diff XBMC Media Center on Linux <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 2010-08-21T13:28:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/xinput?rev=1282397307&do=diff XInput: Scroll-Wheel Emulation on a 4-button Marble Mouse [Logitech 4-button Marble Mouse, note the absence of a scroll-wheel] My 4-button Logitech Marble Mouse does not have a scroll-wheel, and by default in Ubuntu 8.10 does not use any of its buttons to emulate one. Time to dive into xorg.conf, right? Wrong! To quote