Category Archives: linux

Sep
10
2011

Fixing write permissions for NFS Windows client

So after a recent Arch upgrade, Samba mysteriously stopped working, and I really wasn’t in the mood to troubleshoot what broke it. I have always disliked Samba (and CIFS as a whole), so was pleasantly surprised to learn an NFS client has been shipping with Windows for like, ever, now. After installing and configuring NFS in Arch [...]

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Apr
03
2011

SSH public key authentication on Windows 7 64-bit

So I’ve been struggling for the past 2+ hours trying to get something I’ve done a million times before to work in Windows 7 64-bit. Namely, public key passwordless authentication from a Windows SSH client to a Linux OpenSSH server. I need to have seamless logins without a password/passphrase because I’m using a headless VirtualBox [...]

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Dec
02
2009

Arch on coLinux

I’ve recently gotten tired of working in Cygwin‘s slow environment and was looking for something faster and more faithful to a true Unix system. I knew virtualization was an option, but didn’t want to sacrifice the accessibility and speed of working with a native application (yes, even in seamless mode). Enter coLinux: essentially a port [...]

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Nov
01
2009

Eight reboots later…

…And I have upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate x86 Final and Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”. Things I’d like to see/do more of: Keep my data separate from the operating system. I keep separate partitions for all my documents and files. On Ubuntu this is simply a matter of having a /home partition and using it [...]

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May
13
2009

My Conky config

This is a Conky config I’ve been using for years now, but today I changed some things and decided to put it up here. I’m not the original author of this as I snatched it from the Ubuntu forums some years ago. According to the comments, someone named Pengo is. I think I made some [...]

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Mar
05
2008

Hard disk backup with Linux + dd

Performing a hard disk backup and restoring it successfully using dd isn’t as peachy as its manpage would lead you to believe. If it turns out that the partition you need backed up is bootable, and your boot manager is GRUB, there are some special considerations you might need to take into account in order to have a perfectly functioning copy faithful to the original.

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