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Zypper clean-up
So I was having this problem updating some Kerberos 5 patches in my SuSE test environment — apparently a patch RPM was broken. I tried fixing that by downloading them directly, not using sudo /usr/bin/zypper up but sudo /bin/rpm -Uvh krb5.patch.rpm instead. No dice. Since there was no yum clean equivalent in the Zypper version [...]
Taking Sugar on a Stick for a spin
So I wanted to try out Sugar on a Stick, and there’s this Eee PC laying around. Grabbed the ISO image, and checked its integrity. Got Fedora’s liveusb-creator as well. Used Peng’s USB flash disk to “burn” the live ISO. Set the Eee PC to boot from the USB flash disk. Et voila! Sugar on [...]
Generate random strings
(Another “piecemeal” post. Yes, I know: I should write more often.) I cycle through one-off passwords (of varying lengths). To generate these, I use the following shell script: #!/bin/bash usage() { echo "Usage: `basename $0` [length]" } [ $# -gt 1 ] && usage && exit 65 [ $# -eq 0 ] [...]
Find duplicate files
Update: As Pádraig Brady, fslint maintainer, pointed out: fslint/findup *is* a shell script. My 500-GB Seagate FreeAgent Desktop is almost filled to the brim (there’s *only* ~70GB free space left) so I need to find all duplicate files for clean-up. Fortunately, there are tools to do just this. I tried fslint, which is also available [...]
Upgrading to Fedora 12
…was pain-free. Well, almost. The prep work for Fedora’s latest version, Constantine, involved backing up important files and freeing up space. Like my move from Fedora 10 to 11, I used PreUpgrade (I’ didn’t want to do the yum upgrade route — it was too much work for something that should be trivial by now). [...]
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