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Having used Debian Sarge for a while, and just using the default versions of e2fsprogs, I got used to unmounting logical volumes in order to resize them. However, now that I’ve upgraded to Etch, I can now finally do online resizing (yeah, yeah, I know I could have compiled the newer e2fsprogs for sarge …). […]

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Having recently installed Debian Etch, I was quite happy with the default Gnome setup … except for fonts in Iceweasel. There’s a tendency for some sites to use jagged bitmap fonts. I found the solution here. You just need to do the following: cp /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d fc-cache -vf I also installed the MS$ core fonts […]

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When I first started out working with UNIX it was with HP-UX systems almost 15 years ago. HP-UX 9 came standard with a logical volume manager (LVM). Some years later I first started looking at linux and the standard partitioning scheme in linux seemed archaic. That was a long long time ago. I had always […]

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If you do a google search on ‘linux dual monitors’ you’ll find a lot of forum discussions about this problematic issue. The thing is having two or more monitors has really caught on. The most common setup is a laptop with an extra monitor, but video cards often come with a DVI and VGA output […]

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For a long time VMware was pretty much the only option for running Virtual machines on Linux and Windows. But this year, there seems to be a lot of alternatives. Parallels has been around for a year or two now, VirtualBox seemed to appear at the start of this year, Xen (or XenSource … or […]

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