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…
Resize KVM virtual disk
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…
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…