Category Archives: Linux

The suboptimal way to expand a filesystem online

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Eric

I used LVM to increase the size of a logical volume containing an ext3 fileystem from 300GB to 500GB. After expanding the logical volume, it is necessary to expand the filesystem to use the added space. In theory, this can … Continue reading →

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Skype and Teamspeak finally coexisting

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Eric

I use Skype for telephony, and Teamspeak for some online games (mostly Ticket to Ride). Until now, I’ve never gotten them to peacefully coexist on my 64-bit Linux system, despite the use of the ALSA OSS emulation library. Now, with … Continue reading →

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Fedora 7 Rhythmbox install is brain-damaged

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Eric

The update to Fedora 7 installed Rhythmbox.  Perhaps it was already installed with Fedora Core 6, but I didn’t use it, and it hadn’t caused me any grief.  But in Fedora 7, Rhythmbox registered itself as the default player for … Continue reading →

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Upgraded one system to Fedora 7

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Eric

After making a backup, I upgraded one of my computers to Fedora 7.  The upgrade went smoothly, and I haven’t noticed any problems.   The balloon theme is nicer that then Fedora Core 6 DNA theme.. GutenPrint 5.0 (formerly GimpPrint) has … Continue reading →

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lcdtest now uses SCons instead of make

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Eric

A few people reported problems caused by the “.d” dependency files created by the dependency analysis hack in the Makefile, so I’ve updated lcdtest to use SCons instead of make.  I’ve also now made RPMs for Fedora Core 6 available … Continue reading →

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Gish – novel computer game, using 2D physics

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Eric

Hanford Lemoore recently wrote about the low sales figures for the indie game Gish. in which the player controls a gelatinous blob of tar, navigating subterranean coridors and traps, dealing with monsters, etc. They actually have a Linux version (as … Continue reading →

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Free Software client for Cisco VPN

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Eric

Several years ago I tried to get a Linux system to connect to a Cisco VPN concentrator. There is a proprietary Cisco client for Linux, but it uses a closed-source kernel module, and I an not willing to use such … Continue reading →

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Sprint Mobile Broadband (EV-DO)

Posted on December 8, 2006 by Eric

I finally decided to get a cellular data service, Sprint Mobile Broadband (EVDO). Short summary: I’ve only tried using it at my office so far, but the performance is great. I’m getting over 500 Kbps downstream, with round-trip ping times … Continue reading →

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/home partition recovered

Posted on September 22, 2006 by Eric

I was able to recover the /home partition from the disk that Windows clobbered a week ago.  Windows overwrote the partition table, and none of the usual methods I’ve used for data recovery were able to find it, nor was … Continue reading →

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FreeNX

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Eric

I just tried using FreeNX instead of X port forwarding with SSH. The problem with X port forwarding is that if your SSH connection dies for any reason, you lose your X session. You can use the ‘screen’ program inside … Continue reading →

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