Work with man pages

Reading Time: < 1 minute  Finding more information with man pages
man -a intro (and press q)
shows the list of man books:
1 – introduction to user commands
2 – system calls
3 – library functions
4 – special files
5 – file formats
6 – games
7 – overview, conventions, and miscellany section
8 – administration and privileged commands


Xen

Reading Time: < 1 minute  Xen is the virtualization tool for Redhat.
3 packages are needed: kernel-xen, xen, virt-manager

in order to create a new virtual machine:

virt-install

in order to start, create, destroy, stop, list virtual machines:

virtsh or xm

graphical user interface:

virt-manager

Hosting change

Reading Time: < 1 minute Dedibox is now offering much cheaper servers. I am switching from a 40€/month server to a 20€/month server. Not bad!

http://www.online.net/serveur-dedie/offre-dedibox-v3.xhtml

AT&T APN for HTC Magic

Reading Time: < 1 minute Name: AT&T
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy: leave blank
Port: leave blank
Username:WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
Password:CINGULAR1
Server: leave blank
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS Proxy: wireless.cingular.com
MMS Port: 80
MCC:310
MNC:410
APN Type: leave blank

Streaming your screen with VLC

Reading Time: < 1 minute Interesting article from Many Ayromlou (http://www.nerdlogger.com)
How to stream your screen using VLC?

VLC is a great Video Player with streaming and encoding capabilities. It’s been developed originally by Ecole Centrale Paris.

We’re going to USA

Reading Time: < 1 minute June 22nd, we’re flying off to Dallas for 6 months.

How to find which files comes with a Ubuntu package

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apt-get install dlocate
dlocate -L <name_of_the_package>

ex:
dlocate -L sysstat
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/sysstat
/usr/lib/sysstat/sa1
/usr/lib/sysstat/sa2
/usr/lib/sysstat/sadc
/usr/lib/sysstat/debian-sa1
/usr/share
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/mpstat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pidstat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sar.sysstat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sadf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/iostat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/sa2.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sa1.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sadc.8.gz
/usr/share/doc

Ports and processes under windows

Reading Time: < 1 minute It is possible to know which process is listening on a specific port in Windows.
Do the following:

– Open a cmd window.
– Type "netstat -ano"
– Look right, there is the PID of the process you’re looking for in front of the port number.
– Type "tasklist /svc /FI "PID eq 4022"   Replace 4022 by your PID number.

How to make sushis

Reading Time: 3 minutes How to make perfect rice for perfect sushis.

Buy the right rice. There are probably many good rice but the one we buy is called Kokuho Rose. If you live in Helsinki area, you can find some at Tokyokan in Annankatu. http://www.tokyokan.fi/

Cleaning the rice. You need to wash the rice before cooking it. Just pour some water in it, mix and empty. If the water is white it means the rice needed to be washed.

Cooking the rice.

Free Useful Windows tools

Reading Time: < 1 minute Auslogics Duplicate File Finder
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/duplicate-file-finder

Ultradefrag
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/files/ultradefrag/ultradefrag-3.3.0/ultradefrag-3.3.0.bin.i386.exe/download

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