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Some interesting 'powercommands' in linux (i didnt know any of them)

Posted 12-22-2005 at 06:35 AM by carl0ski

I felt the need to read through a big book about Bash commands so far here are some of my favourites

Alias command : allows assigning a long line of commands to a short phrase (alias shortcut='lengthycommand')

bittorrent-curses --maxport 6666 --minport 7777 --maxuploadrate 10 (a pain in the but to type)
but 'bit' isnt

#alias bit='bittorrent-curses --maxport 6666 --minport 7777 --maxuploadrate 10'
#bit suse.torrent
is now the same...

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Fedora Core 4 (New Meaning to Dependancy hell)

Posted 12-20-2005 at 07:15 PM by carl0ski

i want to do something very simple
but fedora makes it rediculously difficult,
in a sense almost working against me.

i want to install this rpm
fglrx64_6_8_0-8.16.20-1.x86_64.rpm

dependancy hell is the result (i actually thought someone made this up since Mandrake never had it)

Yum is flakey at best it lacks, speed efficiency and user friendliness.
yum install
yum localinstall
refuse to install it

Total

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Today URPMI S$%# itself and Fedora X86_64 DVD just happened to around. Good Idea??

Posted 12-20-2005 at 06:21 AM by carl0ski

The lesson i learned today is dont delete the entire /var cache directory
apparently it causes problems

To fix it i was going to quickly use mandriva repair/update

but Fedora was sitting there staring at me.

Am i happy?
not so far
Fedora core 4
1. come with KDE 3.4.0 (bit outdated and .0 isnt ever a favoured version)
2. Install took a very long time 30mins (equililent install in Mandriva x86_64 is 15mins)...

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Me and my IrritATIng motherboard drivers

Posted 12-15-2005 at 05:38 AM by carl0ski

IrratATIng

ATI Xpress 200 i found to be truely magnificent piece of equipment , however the conducter is lazy.

Today i found my way to the ATI site (/me shudders) and followed my nose through to ATI Xpress 200 Linux X86_64 drivers
I though fantastic and downloaded the latest 8.19 South Bridge Drivers for ATI motherboards with GFX.
ATI Customer Care > Drivers and Software > Linux > Linux x86_64 > Motherboards with ATI Graphics > RADEON >...

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Athlon64X2 + Xpress 200 Upgrade equates to Uplate

Posted 12-15-2005 at 05:06 AM by carl0ski

I Recently ploped down the cash on a MS-RS482M4 to accomidate a Athlon 64 X2.
Replacing an honourable Athlon XP (may its ashes rest in peace)

I installed Mandriva 2006 X86_64 on my new beast with a few hiccups.

First for some bizarre reason the Kernel on the install disc doesnt boot past IDE and SATA controllers unless
# noapic
is passed to the kernel like so
# linux noapic

that isnt a big deal however whenever noapic is passed...

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