By default the libvirt daemon will create some iptables rules for its NAT virtual network (if any). Those rules may not be exactly what you want, so the question is "how to disable libvirt nwfilter rules?". One possible solution (by…
Linux ATI radeon KMS
These days I had to install a Gentoo on a Compaq 6820s laptop that comes with a ATI Mobility Radeon X1350 (chipset RV515). Although I followed all the guidelines from the following resources: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon I have encountered an…
e1000e - The NVM Checksum Is Not Valid
With the recent version of Linux kernel (just a guess) you may discover that your Intel 825** network card (e1000e) is not working anymore and dmesg is displaying an annoying message like this: e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver e1000e 0000:0x:00.0:…
Convert MS Office documents to PDF (without having Office)
As I am working (mostly) on Linux I do not use Microsoft Office documents, even if sometimes I have to manage to handle them. OpenOffice is a free altenative to MS Office and it is also OS independent. It also…
Fix the dvisvgm-1.0.8.ebuild
Today I had to install some a Gentoo package that depends on the app-text/dvisvgm package. No problem, this happens all the time, right? Well, sometimes (especially when you are not in the mood for such things) it happens that to…
Fix the "Unable to find or create trash directory" in Thunar
If you get the following error when you are deleting a file within Thunar then it should be the right moment to check few things, if you want it to be fixed: check if you have gvfs installed check if…
How to patch a baobab
For those who were around Linux in the last years the Gnome utility called Disk Usage Analyzer (aka baobab) is not a secret anymore. It is a gnome-utils, which perhaps works perfectly with the Gnome desktop environment, but in Gentoo…
How iptables works - netfilter
If you are a keen Linux user then you know the importance of iptables in your life, right? Sometimes I feel that iptables is for Linux what is Assembly language for a computer: if it does not exists then it…
Create your own boot program
You all know how an OS is starting, right? Usually one push the start button, read the POST output from the screen then booootttt - it has started! Well, the idea is that after the POST has successfully completed it…
Connect to SQL Server KVM guest
So you have a KVM host that have one ore more KVM guests (such as Windows, Linux, Android, you name it) and one KVM guest is a Windows system that have a SQL Server (doesn't matter which edition). You want…