Encoding CDs is dated, but has still has merit, falling into the preservation-of-formats category. The most recent encoded CD in my house was from August, 2009. Taking a trip down memory lane, re-installing: rip – A command-line based audio CD … Continue reading
Category Archives: Scripts and Howtos
Ever have a hard drive go bad, yet hesitate to RMA it? That’s understandable. Who knows what people on the other end will do, once it is repaired. Once simple solution is to encrypt the contents of the hard disk. … Continue reading
Let’s face it. Sometimes you have a need for network wide access via SSH. Port redirection does not cut it, and PermitTunnel may be disabled. Here is an old school program that works very well: slirp. Slirp was born in … Continue reading
Sometimes I like to take a television news show and listen to just the audio while exercising or mowing the yard. I have a card in my PC that can capture non-encrypted cable or over the air (OTA) transmissions. Here … Continue reading
For some reason, this one is hard to keep in my head. Sometimes it is necessary to create a “large file” to act as a disk while monkeying with virtualization. If I need, say, 10GB of disk space, do I … Continue reading
LibreOffice (a new branch of OpenOffice.Org) ships in a tar.gz format. Included in this archive are many RPM files. RPM files are useful for installing operating system content. But what if you desire simultaneous access to two versions of the … Continue reading
I had a need recently to create a simple .ica file so people could open it and enjoy a proper desktop. The problem is is that I am old school Citrix (pre XenSource acquisition, and therefore not accustomed to the … Continue reading
When administering Linux, sometimes it necessary to build new software. Over the years, it is easy to see that the process of building software using compilers and make files can easily and appropriately applied to administrative processes. Why create a … Continue reading