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Raspbmc and Edimax EW-7811Un wifi dongle

Just bough a Edimax EW-7811Un wifi dongle to use on my RaspberryPi. It´s a media center so its running Raspbmc ( which is based on rasbian ). First of all, from my experience, raspberry needs to be powered by an ( at least ) 1A power source for the dongle to work as expected. No drivers needed [...]

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Test network throughput between two machines

Recently i needed to test the network troughput between my file server and one of the file server clients. I came across iperf, its a client-server command line utility that sends data between the server ( one of the machines of the pair you want to test ) and the client ( the other machine [...]

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Finding your Ubuntu version

$ cat /etc/lsb-release

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Visual Diffs

For some time now i started to notice the amount of time i wasted in solving version conflicts. The GNU diff works great with small change sets, but having a visual diff tool helps a lot when you’re dealing with long files with lots of diffs. I used several visuall-diff-editors whit the several version-control software [...]

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“time-machine” ™ with rsync

The apple’s time-machine concept is precisely what i want for my laptop “backups” For the information sitting in my laptop i don’t want traditional disaster and recovery backups, i want to be able to, quickly, search and restore any version of ( virtually ) any file. Tthe problem? i don’t own a mac. The principle [...]

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How to build RPMs

Bom .. andei o dia todo de volta de spec files. Para quem precisar de fazer o mesmo aqui ficam dois links que ajudam a entrar nisto: http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/max-rpm-html/s1-rpm-inside-files-list-directives.html Este na realidade é um livro, está um bocadinho desactualizado (foi escrito para a versão 2 do RPM, vamos na 4) mas o essencial está lá. http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/ [...]

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