vi Cheat Sheet

vi is a powerful text editor found on practically every Unix based system. Consequently, it is quite beneficial to learn and master vi and its abundance of keyboard shortcuts. If you are not quite the guru you hoped to be, here is a handy reference page that will bring you up to speed quickly. File [...]

Quick and dirty linux software RAID5

I recently migrated my network storage server, running Ubuntu Linux incidently, to a software RAID 5 configuration. RAID level 5 requires atleast 3 harddrives; giving you in total N-1 storage, where N is the number of disks in the array. For my deployment, I used 3 120GB drives (mixing IDE and SATA, Linux is indifferent [...]

Is this the Last Day of the Month?

“One of the issues that has long irritated Unix users when setting up cron jobs is how to set up a job to run on the last day of the month. Unless one wants to set up a separate cron job for every month (and this still leaves the problem of leap years), it isn’t [...]

Taming Apple’s Tiger for Your PC

I’d just like to say that there are not enough “How I Installed OS X on my Dell.” Here’s my contribution, in twelve easy steps.

1) Get tiger-x86.tar.bz2

2) Unpack tiger-x86-flat.img to a separate NTFS hard drive

3) Load up the system with the Knoppix Live CD

4) If the drive from step 2 is external, attach it and let Knoppix automount it

5) Open up a terminal

• Use su to become root
• Switch to the directory Knoppix mounted from step 4 (look in /mnt/)
• Execute ls –all to verify that the .img file exists
• Execute dd bs=1048576 if=./tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/hda, where hda is the *drive* you wish to install to. hda=drive 1, hdb=drive 2, etc

6) When it has finished copying, reboot and select the drive you want as the startup from the BIOS or boot menu

Linux on iPod mini

I’d just like to say that I realize this is nothing new but I finally got around to checking out the Linux on iPod project. If you have to ask WHY? then don’t bother reading further. Otherwise, here was my installation experience.

First off, I have to admit how amazed I was over the simple installation. That being said, realize what you are doing and what could happen if things go wrong. I merely claim that this “Worked for Me.”