Use your ssh-agent for cron scripts with keychain

Here's a great IBM howto explaining how to use your ssh-agent for cron scripts with keychain. Related: Copy your public SSH-Key to anot...Read more »

Resumable, fast and efficient hard disk data recovery dd_rhelp

dd_rhelp is a script that uses dd_rescue, but includes a log file and parameters to automatically read all the good blocks first and skip t...Read more »

packagekit and Mandriva Cooker

I use Mandriva Cooker. A bleeding edge distro. packagekit is the latest offering from Mandriva for package management. Coupled with KDE'...Read more »

My favorite software that never made it into the distributions

coreutils (cp, mv, etc.) with progress patches InitNG post your favorites!Read more »

Grub Error Codes

If you want to know what the grub error codes mean, look here : 1 : Filename must be either an absolute filename or blocklist This error is...Read more »

Ext3 Partition Optimized for RAID5

Check the output of mdadm. It tells you the block size in chunks, which you will need. mke2fs -j -E stride=64,stripe-width=320 -L LABEL /dev...Read more »

Refresh the Partition Table

sudo blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda First make sure nothing is mounted from the disk (here /dev/sda).Read more »

Fast interlaced AVCHD (PAL) conversion with Mencoder-SVN

Thanks to a Urkki , I've found out that mencoder-SVN nowadays supports AVCHD transcoding pretty well now. So I'll publish my current...Read more »

Copy your SSH Public Key to Another Machine with One Simple Command

ssh-copy-id user@hostRead more »

KDE 4.2 - Fresh, Hot, Pretty, Efficient - A Release to Enjoy

I've seen quite few real reviews of KDE 4.2 so far. Let me show you a screen shot and begin with my summary: It's a great release. P...Read more »

Porting Chrome back to KDE

Greg just had a great idea . Port the browser (Chrome) based on the browser (safari) that is based on the browser of KDE(konqueror) back to ...Read more »

Login with admin privilege can make matters worse

Many windows users don't know that they login with administrator privileges. When viruses or worms attack, they use the user's privi...Read more »

Akses file secara remote, beda antara linux dan windows

Beberapa waktu lalu ada pertanyaan di milis tanya-jawab@linux.or.id menanyakan editor teks yang memiliki kemampuan mengedit file remote sec...Read more »