I have been extremely busy for the last few weeks and couldn’t find time to update my blog, so apologies are in place. I am sorry, and I will add later this week several tips and tricks about BASH scripting, which might save time and effort for those of you who use if for more…
Ali5451, with module (Alsa) snd_ali5451 works fine for a long while now. However, I’ve discovered just a short while ago that it will not recored / use for SkyPE sound sourced from the microphone. I have tried various settings with alsamixer but was unable to record sound yet. I can hear the noises made well…
I add to this blog all pieces of information which I might think could help other people. One of the things I have encountered short while ago had to do with DL140 G1 system cannot boot Linux. It’s Linux system (RedHat 4 32bit) was deployed by an external system and the system could not boot….
Some of you might take it lightly, some of you might take it seriously, and encrypt your wireless network, block the network to specific MAC addresses, etc. This guy had one special treat for his neighbors. Maybe I should try that too…
To be able to fax a text file containing Unicode (especially non-English characters), a suggestion can be found in this mailing-list post. I could not use it, though, because my Unicode text had ASCII-art-tables, and the printing process forced using variable font. I was unable to convert the text to an encoding (using iconv or…
Per the last post in this thread, I have created a startup script to an Oracle setup I’ve had. The script is rather simple – you “su –” to the Oracle user, and you just start the DB. Same goes for shutting it down. I have tested it and it worked well. Due to the…
