Tech notes

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

NFS shares & automount

On each computer on the network there is an NFS server running, starting at bootup (edit the runlevel to enable that).

April 4, 2007 • 3 min read • Technology

Mplayer is probably the best video player (and mencoder the best encoder)

Because the videodata recorded by dunerec is in some strange mpeg flavour it occupied quite a bit of diskspace.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Mouting of encrypted partitions under SuSE 9.3 (losetup, cryptotab, twofish256, twofishSL92)

I have one encrypted partition that was created under SuSE 9.2.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Mounting of vfat partitions and accession privilege management mapping (fstab, vfat, umask, fmask, dmask, users)

Old Windows (i.e.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Monitoring the CPU temperature (ksensors, lmsensors)

To monitor the CPU temperature I use ksensors.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Migrating the Mad Thought Blog to a new server (mysql, php)

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April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Manually syncronizing the time (xntp, ntpdate)

If you manually want to syncronize your computer's clock with a time server: sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate tick.keso.fi

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Manually recharging batteries

I have a old-fashioned battery charger from Varta (type 57 037 091 101) that doesn't switch off the current when the batteries are fully charged.
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