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…
Wireless security settings
If you have a home wireless access point and you are not sure which wireless security settings to choose, then read bellow. Today wireless access point devices offers more than one security mode. You could choose between NONE, WEP, WPA…
RAID / LVM not showing in Disk Utility
I have a Linux on a x86_64 system powered by Gentoo distro. On my system I have one 90GB SSD + 2x500GB HDD. The 2x500 HDD are part of a LVM (with striping , mostly for performance reason). Disk utility…
sweets from the bootchart2
Starting with April 2012 a new version of the old bootchart have appeared in Gentoo's package repository. It is named bootchart2. You can read the bootchart2's README file to understand why do we have a new bootchart(2) and what are…
gentoo on hp dc7900eC
As my Compaq 6820s laptop's AC/DC died (or maybe only the laptop's DC jack, I haven't investigated yet the issue) I had been forced to move on and to put at work an old friend, a HP dc7900eC/E8400 convertible minitower.…
Rescue a deleted partition
When you work with several disks is easy to get confused and to delete a partition that you don't really want. First advice: DO NOT PANIC! In fact STOP doing anything! Try to figure out what went wrong, what you…
Windows convert dynamic to basic disk
I have a Win2K3 VM hosted by a KVM hypervisor. In the Linux host I have 2 Linux partitions type ID=83 (eg: /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb5) that I've allocated to the Win2K3 VM as virtual disks. The Windows guest took care…