April 2012 ~ Techmint Blog

126. linux ssh examples: rsync across portforwarded ssh and helping remotely via ssh behind firewalls

Even bog-standard ssh is pretty neat, since there's little that can't be done in the terminal. However, firewalls can be annoying an...

The situation: I remotely dist-upgraded someone's old Dell laptop (Inspiron 6000). They were running Wheezy, but had not done a full apt...

It may not be advertised widely, but zeitgeist + journal might help save your behind when you're in a hurry and can't find a file. ...

I've posted the general build instructions for nwchem 6.0 with mpi support here: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/nwchem-60-with...

For some reason me-tv has stopped working properly today (20/4/2012)-- I can't change the channels, screen size or drop down the menus...

We have three computers: A, B and C A is our desktop. C is a remote computer we want to connect to. B is a server in the middle. For various...

This is not some fancy, automatic solution. This is for people who may not be familiar with truecrypt and how to use it. To most people this...

Update 23 March 2013: the java.com file isn't distributed as a .bin file anymore. Just replace all instances of .bin with .tar.gz and i...

Update: also see this post: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/shmmax-revisited-and-shmall-shmmni.html When running nwchem using mpiru...

If you have /dev/fb0 you're fine -- you have a working frame buffer, and that was the case on my laptop and my optiplex 990. However, my...

Symptom: When using latexila or texmaker no dvi/ps/pdf is generated. No outright error is report though When trying to generate the pdf in t...