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Animated Grub Splash Screen

Posted 12-05-2009 at 10:49 AM by raju.mopidevi
Updated 02-09-2010 at 07:37 PM by raju.mopidevi

In a openSUSE linux system we can edit OS selection Screen with animated penguins.

Animated Penguin GRUB splash Screen

Procedure

Create a temporary new directory in your home folder. (You can create it anywhere, but for simplicity, I will say the path as the home folder and the directory name as new).
Now copy the file message from the /boot folder in this directory using the command, ‘cp /boot/message new’.
Now change into the new directory,

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Installing Network Simulator-ns2

Posted 12-05-2009 at 11:07 AM by raju.mopidevi
Updated 02-25-2010 at 08:09 AM by raju.mopidevi

Tags network simulator, ns2

NS is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research. NS provides substantial support for simulation of TCP, routing, and multicast protocols over wired and wireless (local and satellite) networks.

download latest NS2 installation files at this link

NS2 INSTALLATION:

Code:

$su
password:
$ tar -xvf ns-allinone-2.33.tar.gz
$ cd ns-allinone-2.33
$ ./install

after 15 min installatin wil complts
by
giving...

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Patch and Compile Kernel with Custom Boot Logo

Posted 12-18-2009 at 04:54 AM by ~sHyLoCk~
Updated 12-21-2009 at 11:08 AM by ~sHyLoCk~

Tags boot, compile, custom, kernel, slackware

Originally Posted in my BLOG.

Unlike every other distro, Slackware doesn't brand anything. Everything is vanilla. So when you boot, you see the original linux penguin logo at the top of your screen.

Download the latest kernel source from kernel.org. I'll be using here kernel 2.6.32 source and 2.6.32.1 patch. So you understand that you don't need to download the whole kernel source every-time a...

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Batch-fixing symlink targets

Posted 08-28-2010 at 06:08 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 12-10-2016 at 05:32 PM by the dsc

Tags batch, symlink

Sometimes you move the folder to which lots of symlinks were pointing, or something to that effect, and you want to simply "edit" these symlinks rather than recreating them pointing the correct new location. That's how it can be done with one line:

Code:

find /place-where-the-null-symlinks are/ -type l | while read nullsymlink ; 
do wrongpath=$(readlink "$nullsymlink") ; 
right=$(echo "$wrongpath" | sed s'|/whatever/is/the/old-wrong/path|/correct-new/path|')

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Installing a Brother MFC-J220 printer in Slackware 3.1 32bit

Posted 03-03-2011 at 12:19 PM by trillobyte
Updated 04-29-2013 at 10:44 AM by trillobyte (Updated 04/29/2013)

Tags brother, brscan-skey, mfc-j220, printer, scanner

Distribution: Slackware 13.1 (Update) These procedures relate to Slackware 14.0 64bit as well.
Distribution Edition: 32bit
Driver: mfcj220lpr-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm
Driver: mfcj220cupswrapper-1.1.1-3.i386.rpm
Driver: brscan3-0.2.11-4.i386.rpm
Driver: brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.i386.rpm
SANE version: Sane-1.0.21
CUPS version: cups-1.4.5
***Note***For 64bit Slackware you will need to install at least the glibc-solibs-2.15_multilib-x86_64-7alien.txz and cups-compat32-1.5.4-x86_64-2compat32.txz...

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