It's happening that I have a Win2K3 kvm VM hosted on a Linux host. On Linux I have installed two disks and on each of these disks I've created many partitions. Two of these partitions serve like "physical disks" to…
Oops, I did it again!
Those who are playing with fire sometimes they just get burned. I was trying to create a backup for one of my HDD partition, some kind of partition-to-partition backup. After playing a while with dd and experimenting different CLI options…
Upgrade laptop CPU
Do you ever wanted to upgrade laptop CPU but you was not sure if it's possible or didn't know how to do it? So was I. I will tell you my story... I had a HP Compaq 6820s laptop. Yes,…
Windows Vista Live-CD
I have a HP Compaq 6820s laptop and I want to upgrade its BIOS. In Linux we have flashrom which can (among others) flash firmware images as BIOS. The only problem is that my model is unsupported by that software.…
Generalization for "Speed-up system by SquashFs"
In the previous post I wrote about how to speed-up your (Gentoo) system by using the SquashFS filesystem. I had described shortly an experiment of compressing the /usr folder into a SquashFS image (which will become smaller and will boost…
Speed-up system by SquashFs
It has been a while since I installed Gentoo. I always searched for new ways to improve the speed my system boot and run. After goggling little bit on net I found something about SquashFs and how to use it…
Magic SysRq key
Nothing special to add about the magic SysRq key than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key. According to the mentioned link above "the magic SysRq key is a key combination understood by the Linux kernel, which allows the user to perform various low-level commands regardless…
Suspend laptop Linux with 1 line of code
I have Gentoo with Xfce desktop environment. It has a xfce4-session-logout command which displays a logout-suspend-shutdown confirmation screen where you can choose what you want to do. Sometimes I only need to suspend to RAM the session and I want…
Gentoo + Xfce = 98 MB of RAM
I succeed to tune my system so tight as it need only 98 MB of my 2GB of RAM to boot and run Xfce desktop. I am using a custom compiled kernel 3.2.2 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux which starts in top…
Idol Sweden 2011 - Moa Lignell and Amanda Fondell
I watched Idol Sweden 2011 and 2 singers have captured my attention: Moa Lignell and Amanda Fondell. There were more than 2 singers that performed very well, though... This post is about they and their evolution. I will start with…