This lets you access your Linux home directory and local DVD drive from Windows without having to set up additional cifs/nfs mounts. My home directory is an NFS mount from another server, so you should be able to access *any* file system that is available on your Linux side.

There’s no need to unmount it or mount read-only before adding the journal. If you operate on a mounted file system, the journal gets created on a regular inode. Upon your next boot, the journal will be moved to the hidden inode. You can’t modify or remove the .journal file either, so don’t even worry about that.

Here’s one very specific way to temporarily remove an RPM package where I think I want it gone, but I want to test to see how the system reacts when the package is completely removed. I dont’ want to just remove it because i’ve made some changes to the config files and perhaps I’ve spliced in a few custom binaries here and there, so it’s really iffy.

I can’t figure out how to make yum ignore dependencies and I can’t find it by googling either. The yum-allowdowngrade package doesn’t do what I expected it to do. So I’ll just have to ignore yum for now and force rpm to do the job.

I changed the kernel semaphores and ip local port range as usual in /etc/sysctl.conf for an Oracle 11g install, and what happened?

Run Wubi, give it a password, and click “install”. The installation process from is fully automatic from here. The rest of the installation files will be downloaded and confirmed, after which you’ll get the standard windows wants to reboot. Do so and select Ubuntu at the boot screen. The installation will continue for another few minutes depending on how old your machine is and will reboot once again. Choose Ubuntu at the boot screen again and enjoy.

If you want to store a mix of encrypted and unencrypted files under the same area, choose plaintext passthrough, otherwise choose the default, no. I suggest an all or nothing approach, as it can get confusing as to which files are encrypted especially when they’re binary! (With ascii text files you can just cat a file and tell if it’s encrypted or not.)

eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux that is…

Enabling aliases in Lighttpd is even easier than in Apache. If you want to browse your app without having to include the trailing slash, then make sure you didn’t include trailing slashes in your alias definitions (my alias.url’s above don’t have the trailing slash). Many examples show something like /doc/ => “/usr/share/doc/” but then it won’t find the index.php or index.html on its own.

Removing the pcspkr module is fine for an instant halt to all beeping noises coming out of the machine, and sure you could just add this to your profile in .bashrc or .bash_profile, But the right/best/most complete way is to do it system-wide where it doesn’t even get enabled in the first place by blacklisting it in the modprobe configuration.