How to extract modern Ubuntu initramfs
Just to remember, there is an explanation here, from which the following directive can be taken: (cpio -id; zcat | cpio -id) < /path/to/initrd.img
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Ubuntu 18.04 and TPM2 encrypted system disk
*** EDIT *** : An updated version of this post can be found here: https://run.tournament.org.il/ubuntu-20-04-and-tpm2-encrypted-system-disk/ When you encrypt your entire disk, you are required to enter your passphrase every time you boot your computer. The TPM device has a purpose – keeping your secrets secure (available only to your running system), and combined with SecureBoot,…
TSClient on Ubuntu 12.04
Today there will be a few different posts. This is a day full of events, so… My first – to allow tsclient to work under Ubuntu 12.04, you should follow this guide: http://superuser.com/a/547102 To sum it up: Get tsclient to your architecture from http://pkgs.org Install it using ‘sudo dpkg –force-depends -i tsclient_0.150-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb’ Edit /var/lib/dpkg/status ,…
Cables connection in Israel for Linux
Update to 0.2. Links remain the same. At the moment I cannot host many versions (it’s mostly uncomfortable), but this might change in the future. I have created a GUI cables installer and configurator for L2TP on Linux. I have noticed that there is no GUI solution, so, after this has been brought up, I…
Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 USB performance issues
As the owner of a nice laptop running Hardy, I had a huge performance degradation when accessing USB storage devices. Speed could reach 1MB/s at most, and usually, half that speed. The trick that solved my problem was suggested in this post, and after I have tested it, I was happy with the results. The…
An experiment
My brother is a computer illiterate. He can use a computer for the purpose of e-mail messaging and for editing documents, spreadsheets, etc. I have decided to “abuse” his older laptop, an IBM X31 and install Ubuntu on it. This is some sort of an experiment. I wonder how he, a simple user, can cope…