Wednesday, 5 April 2006

Nice SSH reference (linux)

It's been referenced a billion times in a billion ways, so this is mostly for me. ;-)

SSH Tutorial for Linux

posted by erin at 5 April 2006, 09:05 AM (add comment)
Wednesday, 1 December 2004

Handy CD reading/writing/ripping stuff (linux)

ISO, CDR, and CDRW in Linux [cpqlinux.com]

An old page, but full of handy tips (more like quick references) nonetheless.

Just in case, it's also here. [waybackmachine.org]

Also:

posted by erin at 1 December 2004, 10:41 PM
Thursday, 4 March 2004

Session data in a RAMDISK (linux)

What a stroke of genius. [ding!] I’m sure some people think it’s obvious, but what a great application of RAMDISK!

Sessions are generally small, and putting them in a RAMDISK eliminates IO activity from storing/retrieving session data without having to change anything in PHP..

posted by erin at 4 March 2004, 10:51 AM
Thursday, 19 February 2004

Helpful stuff for kernel 2.6.x and X (mice/keyboard) (linux)

Linux: 2.6 Input Drivers FAQ

Didn’t want to lose it.. :-)

Additional keyboard stuff:

posted by erin at 19 February 2004, 09:17 PM
Sunday, 21 December 2003

TrueType Fonts (linux)

Re: truetype fonts

XftConfig contains scalable fonts only. bitmap fonts can’t possibly be anti-aliased (and anti-aliasing is what XftConfig is there for).

> Can one get ride of one of the files?

If you remove /etc/X11/fs/config, X will stop working.
If you remove /etc/X11/XftConfig, antialiasing will act oddly.

Fonts in X

posted by erin at 21 December 2003, 11:26 AM

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