After a windows fresh install, the windows setup decided to drop my MBR to put its stuff in. Fine .. but I want my grub back now !
This is an old trick, but udev added a little complexity, so let’s give it a try. First boot on a Ubunty CD, open a console and run:
(here [...]
Tags: grub, linux, sata, ubuntu
admin October 30th, 2007
3D drivers (openGL) have awlays been a source of problem on Linux.
A lot of people just don’t care, since they don’t use there computer
to play games. But yesterday, something change this fact: Google released
a native version of Google Earth for Linux[1]. As I already played with
Google Earth before, I really want to test this new [...]
Tags: google earth, openGL, x11
admin June 13th, 2006
This is really something i need to learn, and never forget. But this is kind of stuff, I always forget. So I write it up right now.
ps aux|gawk ‘$11 == “ssh” {print $2}’
Tags: shell
admin November 15th, 2004
By default Debian install Lilo on i386 arch. I really like lilo, but after a couple of broken config file and severall other hitch. I decided to install grub. Grub is a bit hard if you never install it before. But mainly because the apt-get install grub doesn’t install a default file. So
apt-get install grub
grub-install [...]
Tags: debian, grub
admin August 3rd, 2004
Pam_USB is a pam_module that allow you to log in w/ a usb-key (or a cdrom/ floppy .. any removable device w/ a serial number or a free space to hold DSA keys.)
This is pretty kool since, this kind of stuff can be usefull. I think about:
security of course ( using Additional directive )
or usefull [...]
Tags: linux, security, sysadmin
admin December 19th, 2003
Last week, Debian server has been hacked. Ok but take a look at http://www.wiggy.net/debian/developer-securing/ you will learn how they try avoid this in the future. Mainly by avoiding lkm in linux.
Tags: debian, security
admin November 29th, 2003
Un petit nouveau dans les kiosques http://www.redhatmagazine.com/fr/ . A la lecture du sommaire, il me semble assez interessant à suivre donc ..
Tags: redhat
admin November 29th, 2003
I have been asking for this for a while .. and the only answer is : buy a CD.
That said, here a sample doc found here: http://deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20031105030127
Tags: bsd, cd
admin November 7th, 2003
A really nice tutorial for bind zone files here
Tags: bind, dns
admin October 27th, 2003
Setting up PPPD server (with no auth )
edit /etc/ppp/options change auth to noauth ( cause -noauth is disable on debian)
pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 192.168.2.3:192.168.2.10
on the iPaq just pppd .. that all :))
Tags: dsl, ppp, serial
admin October 24th, 2003