>NIL:'s Techno Feats

...or how I almost lost 1.5 TB of data today. If you use software/fake RAID, this might happen to you too. See, this morning I thought I wou...

In IE (>7): Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> International -> Always show encoded addresses -> Un check A typical ...

Well, one guy was crazy enough to create a single image containing all the Unicode charts from unicode.org and put it online, and he was ev...

Change the default font to Lucida issue the command chcp 65001

Goddammit! I don't know if 3D graphics designer use Photoshop or not, and if they do, how they manage to put with it all day, but talk ...

To replace ^M characters that did not quite make it into carriage return when displayed in vi: :%s/ <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M>/ <Ctrl-V...

Always seem to forget stuff there. The command I'm looking for to manage services/change runlevel on redhat/centos is chkconfig (chkconf...

One day or another, you'll want to check what exactly your MySQL server is doing (to check for SQL injections for instance). Therefore: ...

There's not ONE motherboard manufacturer to save the others. NOT ONE! Listen, we all know that you're hardware developers, and that ...

Reinstalled my old rig yesterday, to switch from a RAID0 to a RAID1 conf, now that the bulk of my data is stored in the RAID5 array from my ...

Thought it would be straightforward, and that the system would automagically take care of it by itself, think again: GRUB is dumb, until we ...

This will be the final episode of our ongoing installation of Linux on a nVidia MediaShield fakeraid RAID5 array. By now, you should have a ...

Well, I already gave you some tips , but each time I do it, it's a complete pain finding the right driver and getting it to work. I'...

OK, by now you have a whole Linux system sitting idly on one of your RAID5 device mapper partitions. First thing you want to do then is edit...

It's that time of the decade where I get a new machine, this time an nVidia MCP79 (a.k.a. GeForce 9400) based motherboard from Gigabyte ...

Here's a link to the hosts file I use on my Windows systems: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Well, like everybody else , this error has been driving me nuts. Plus it manifested itself in such a weird way I couldn't believe. I alr...

Or at least your data. I have been unofficially sysadm'ing a bunch of HP DL380 running Linux over the past few years, and over the Chris...

For some reason , I decided to install openssh on openWRT (Kamikaze), and I have been getting "Incoming packet was garbled on decryptio...

Went over the MMC configuration for my openWRT router yesterday, as I wanted to relinquish the use of the SES button by the driver (GPIO4) t...

OK, if you ended up here, it's probably because you've been trying to install an unsigned driver (eg. XBCD Xbox Gamepad, PSPLinkUSB)...

Should really be in techno rant, because Vista's "security" is done completely backwards, but here we go. If you try to move/c...

unixtime: #!/bin/sh date -d @$1

It's been documented to death, so I'm not gonna bother telling you how exactly I did it. Just make sure you use the optimised mmc.o ...

I have to do this once in a while, then completely forget how it's done, and one year later, I spend 1 hour trying to figure it out agai...