If you have installed a new application in your system that is not maintained by the system package manager (like aptitude, portage, yum, packman, etc), then maybe you have to add a new Xfce menu item in the system menu.…
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…
Bypass Windows Vista product activation
Let's suppose that you have a licensed copy of an Windows Vista/7 but lately you have installed-activated/uninstalled it for several times. At some point the Microsoft Activation Server just get bored and says "OK, if you want me to activate…
Bypass Windows XP product activation
I must state from the beginning that this article is not about cracking Windows activation engine because we don't want to break our Windows EULA, do we?. This article tries to show you ways to bypass Windows XP product activation…
Disable libvirt nwfilter rules
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…
Install Windows XP on SATA without a Floppy (F6)
Do you ever wondered how to install Windows XP on SATA without a floppy drive? These days I have met a new challenge regarding the Windows OS install. I have a five years old Compaq 6820s laptop which, like any…