Linux

I recently ran into a classic problem on my long-running Fedora installation: my /boot partition was full. Back when I set up the system (around Fedora 20), 400MiB was more than enough. Now, with modern kernels, it can barely hold two versions, let alone the default three that Fedora manages. This meant I couldn’t run system updates. The challenge was that my disk was partitioned with /dev/sda1 for /boot and /dev/sda2 as a single large LVM physical volume for my /root and /home filesystems....

Finally, the OS X has been removed from MSI Wind U100, and completely replaced by Debian (testing). Whenever the computer is idle, the hdd makes this weird clicking noise. To stop it, we can use hdparm to turn it off. ` kenno@tora:~$ sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda Source: MSI Wind – Gentoo Linux Wiki

There are probably a gazillion ways to do this. I use FAAC, Freeware Advanced Audio Coder, to do this job. It works very well: <br /> faac originalfile.wav -o outputfile.m4a<br />

I just noticed the abnormality with Pidgin 2.5.5 (running on Debian) these few days — I couldn’t connect my Yahoo messenger account at all. According to the discussion of Bug #389278 it appears that Yahoo was trying to change its protocol. A quick way to have Pidgin connecting to Yahoo messenger server again is to change the Pager server setting for the Yahoo account in Pidgin. To do this, from Pidgin:...