Monthly Archives: July 2010

VIM: How To Show Control Characters

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Masao 

How to show all control characters in VIM: :set list And to disable: :set nolist

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Unix: How to Install BerkeleyDB From Source

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Masao 

This documentation is buried in the source as HTML, so I’m posting it here for convenience. Building for UNIX/POSIX The Berkeley DB distribution builds up to four separate libraries: the base C API Berkeley DB library and the optional C++, … Continue reading →

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CSS: How To Always Show Vertical Scrollbar

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Masao 

To avoid webpage shifting, you can always have the vertical scrollbar visible by doing this: html { overflow-y: scroll; } Note: This only seems to work in Firefox and Internet Explorer.

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Ubuntu: Flushing IpTables Causes Loss of Internet Connection

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Masao 

If you are trying to disable the firewall, but lose Internet connection in the process, use this script: iptables -F iptables -X iptables -t nat -F iptables -t nat -X iptables -t mangle -F iptables -t mangle -X iptables -P … Continue reading →

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Linux: How To Edit resolv.conf Using dhclient.conf

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Masao 

So, you’re trying to get here: /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver 192.168.1.1 domain aaa.com search aaa.com bbb.com You need to edit dhclient.conf like this: /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf: supersede domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1; supersede domain-name “aaa.com”; append domain-name ” bbb.com”; There must be a space before the bbb.com … Continue reading →

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Windows: Kill All Chrome Processes At Once

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Masao 

Run this on the command line: taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe /T /F = force kill /IM = image name /T = kill all child processes as well To create a shortcut, right-click the desktop, then New -> Shortcut. For location, … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu: How To Enable Sound

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Masao 

HP xw6400 Workstation: How to fix your machine if your speakers don’t work. Determine your sound card model: cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec Look up the model in this list: http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt Edit your ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) conf file: … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu: How to Determine Motherboard Type

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Masao 

lshw – list hardware sudo lshw lspci – list all PCI devices sudo lspci

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Ubuntu: APT and DPKG

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Masao 

How to display the files of a package installed? To list all the files provided by the installed package foo execute the command dpkg –listfiles foo Note that the files created by the installation scripts aren’t displayed. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html

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Windows Vista: How To Enable Telnet

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Masao 

By default, Vista installs without telnet available. Here is how to enable telnet in Vista: 1. Open ‘Control Panel’ 2. Select ‘Programs and Features’ 3. In the left column, select ‘Turn Windows features on or off’ (get ready for the … Continue reading →

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