Today I've been researching on Linux and Debian booting. There is an excellent article from IBM, which explains the procedure, and the involved parts: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuxboot/ Basically: - BIOS checks CMOS and...
Some time ago I purchased a Brother multifunctional priner/scanner/fax, the MFC-235C.Today, after reinstalling my laptop, I had to install it again, and it has been as easy as the first. Specially because Brother has GNU (aka Linux) support,...
After some delays, and some lack of official information, today I finally realized that Apple's new operating will be released on Friday October 26th.I actually checked it in Apple's headquarters at Cupertino, in my last visit to California, but...
For converting a simple computer with two interfaces (or more) in a router, it's necessary just to type two sentences in a console:echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip-forwardiptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o -j MASQUERADE
Many times, specially when writing web pages, you have to deal with texts with different encodes (if web site isn't in us-ascii, of course). Here are some useful tips for not spending too much time with this:bash# file -i (for knowing the...
Both UNIX commands are used to set permissions, chmod is for changing permissions of a specific file, and umask is for setting default creation permissions for a user.BasicsSimple UNIX permissions are:r (read)w (write)x (execute)and them can be...
Sometimes it's useful allowing users to execute programs reserved for root. For example if we have a desktop system, we can allow users to halt or reboot computer.There are several ways to achieve it, the proposed here is the simplest one...
Probably not happening anymore with Debian Etch as stable, but that error happened sometimes when apt-get update:W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key...
Finally, after 21 months of constant development, last version of Debian distribution has been released. Oppositely to previous versions of Debian, Etch has a "up-to-date flavour", including last version packages such as Linux kernel 2.6, MySQL...
Some days ago, my laptop's screen crashed. It's a Sony Vaio, and my experience hasn't been good at all.My first problems were when contacting vaio support spain, I had to do many calls to know the whole procedure, register my laptop in the...