Few weeks ago I received my long awaited Raspberry Pi board. For those that (yet) don't know what a Raspberry-Pi is, "The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It's a capable…
Download and untar on the fly
Many times I download an archive, extract it somewhere then remove the archive file from the disk (it's just garbage). I have wondered if it's possible to do download and untar on the fly, by one command only: wget -O…
Connect automatically your FTP server. No login credentials
I have a dozen of FTP accounts (clouds, remote servers, etc) and I'm using them quite often nowadays. If you are a computer geek (like me 😳 ) then you will mostly work at your tty console so no graphical…
Optimize the virtual machine backup process
I have few KVM virtual machines that, for some reasons, I use to backup from time to time. Some of their virtual disks (let's call them VM-hdd) are stored just as a plain raw-uncompressed file (see qcow2) while others are…
Monitor file (size) progress
From time to time I do several maintenance tasks that involve file copying, compressing, disk image cloning, etc. Because sometimes (in fact almost always) these administrative task involves several commands that use the output/result of each other, I cannot use…
Speed up bzip2/xz compression
If you have a SMP system and wonder if exists such thing that can help you to use all CPUs to compress/decompress a file then the answer is YES, there is. It is PBZIP2 - the tool that speed up…
iptables with syslog-ng on Gentoo
If you use syslog-ng protocol to log your Linux kernel's messages into a /var/log/messages file and if you want to log some messages (filtered by some criteria) into a separate log file (eg. your firewall log entries), then here is…
MS-SQL Server on Linux? Yes, it works!
I've read hundreds of posts/articles that simply claim that MS-SQL Server does not work on Linux. Let me tell you this: that's hogwash! I have successfully installed MSDE 2000 (32-bit) on a Linux i686 architecture, more specifically on a Gentoo…
SECUR32_initSchannelSP TLS library not found SSL connections will fail
When running Windows applications in top of wine (under Linux), which make use of MDAC library, then it's possible to get an error message like the one below: err:secur32:SECUR32_initSchannelSP TLS library not found SSL connections will fail Like the message…