There’s a hidden easter egg in Gnome. This will work on Ubuntu and Fedora at least.

Install ccache to speed up compile times for compiling c and c++ code. Installation on fedora is simple.

I moved a database over to another server and setup php and lighttpd, but authentication for my app wasn’t working.

boot.iso should be enough to get you going. You should be able to find it on most fedora mirrors. The one I just downloaded was only 147 megabytes.

This is great for installing on older systems that don’t have a DVD rom. The whole image is 681MB. You can install more software after installing the base system.

The problem is, hexdump will give you 16 ascii characters surrounded by pipes and then a newline before printing the next 16. You can’t search for long strings that way…

You can use the pv utility in conjunction with double buffering dd with pipes to get a nice little progress bar. Y ou can customize this to see elapsed time, and transfer rate.

You might want to do this to make sure a set of configuration files don’t get changed, or to figure out which files get changed when you build that random source code as root! (note to self: don’t make as root unless you have to, rpmbuild is bad enough!)

and then I ran across this post with palm and blackberry users whining about their crappy devices, praying for the next gen linux smartphone gods to save them.

I’ve found 3 ways to disable the strip binary option when building RPMs.