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Ryan

Setup NFS server on Gentoo

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March 19, 2009

Setting up a NFS server on Gentoo doesn’t have to be difficult. Here I will explain how to setup a basic NFS server in just a few steps.
The fist step is to become root.

$ su -

Your Gentoo kernel must be compiled with support for both NFS server and client. You can check for this in [...]

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Fix blue tinted video in Ubuntu

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Ryan
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March 12, 2009

A strange issue has been identified in Ubuntu where video takes on a blue colored tint. Other descriptions of the problem include inverted colors, blue skin tones, or distorted video hues. The problems have been reproduced with Totem (Gstreamer), Totem (Xine), Mplayer, as well as VLC and other players.
The common theme with this [...]

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ubuntu

How to mount an ISO disk image

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March 12, 2009

An ISO image is an archive file (disk image) of an optical disc using a conventional ISO (International Organization for Standardization) format. ISO image files typically have a file extension of .ISO.
Many times is convenient to mount an ISO file directly instead of burning it to a CD first. Not only does this save on [...]

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system administration

Custom screenrc configuration file

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Ryan
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March 10, 2009

Screen may be the most useful Linux applications when it comes to getting things done through the terminal. This custom screenrc configuration file will provide you with a permanent caption line at the bottom of each window. This caption line will enable you to easily keep track of each terminal window and provide other helpful [...]

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New Look

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March 9, 2009

As you may have noticed, WiredRevolution.com has a new look. The majority of the work is now complete but you may see a few more changes in the future. The majority of these changes revolve around browser compatibility, and wrapping up the last design issues.
These design changes have been developed into a new Wordpress theme [...]

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Setup user login restrictions with SSH

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Ryan
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February 4, 2009

At various times it is necessary to restrict the users which can access a certain host. If your network relies on SSH it is as simple as changing an option in the sshd_config configuration file. You will of course need root access to make the necessary changes to this file and eventually reset the SSH [...]

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system administration

Enable HDMI output on Dell XPS M1530/M1330 with Ubuntu

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January 24, 2009

Hardware support in Linux, specifically Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) for the Dell XPS M1530 and M1330 is very impressive. However in certain cases the process is not as straight forward as it could be, and it takes a bit of tinkering in order to get it to work. In this article I will go through [...]

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ubuntu

Skip network filesystems when searching with find

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Ryan
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January 19, 2009

When you run the find command on the root directory of a system you may want to exclude all network filesystems and confine your search to only your local machine. The benefits of this are obvious as it will save you a great amount of time especially if the mounted filesystem is very large.
Luckily [...]

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system administration

Enable syntax highlighting in vim with Ubuntu

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January 14, 2009

Many distributions have syntax highlighting in vim enabled with their default installation. In Ubuntu as well as other Debian based distributions, this is not the case. By default Ubuntu installs the vim-tiny package which does not support syntax highlighting or many other advanced features.
You can see by following the chain of symlinks that in the [...]

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Fix for missing title bar and GNOME panel with Firefox

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Ryan
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January 13, 2009

This is a bug in Firefox 3 where it launches into full screen mode and completely covers the top and bottom GNOME panels as well as its own title bar. While in this buggy mode Firefox cannot be resized, and can only be closed from within the menu.
File -> Quit
A temporary fix involves pressing [...]

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