FreeBSD - Giving up on buffers error with ext3 drives
The problem is that when you mount ext3 (Linux) drives in FreeBSD and reboot, you get a message on Giving up on Buffers ... and after the reboot the file systems are considered "unclean" and checked with fsck.
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Contributed by:
Srini S
[07/29/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Create iPod favicon.ico using Photoshop
After scratching my head about the best way to create a favicon.ico file, I made a happy discovery: a free Photoshop plug-in that allows Photoshop to read and write ICO files. Following this short tutorial, I took a 64x64 iPod icon PNG from the Nuvola theme, resized it to 16x16 in Photoshop, then saved it as favicon.ico. That's all. I uploaded it to www.askdex.com to see how it behaved, and it looks great; even the transparency was preserved. You can download this iPod icon from: http://askdex.com/favicon.ico. Ole! |
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Contributed by:
Sid Steward
[07/22/05 | Discuss (1) | Link to this hack] |
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Conversion of slides to digital images efficiently
Convert your old kodak slides to digital in an efficient manner. |
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Contributed by:
jlb51
[07/18/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Bringing up the quicklaunch
Ever try to get the quicklaunch up in evryway? Well this hack is for you! |
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Contributed by:
jim-shur
[07/12/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Backdooring Knoppix
Remastering Knoppix (see Knoppix Hacks #94) remains pretty uneasy and time consuming. Here is a way to backdoor your Knoppix so that you'll be able to add a few new functionnalities (eg : add a script, aliases, even add new programs) in a snapshot... This hack won't keep you from remastering : it will help you in remastering a smartest way... |
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Contributed by:
Endrazine
[07/08/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Windows Wildcards Can Grab Extra Files
Some pdftk users process hundreds of files. Performing this work on a Windows machine can yield unexpected results. The problem arises from the Windows command-prompt shell, not pdftk. The problem arises because for every long filename, Windows creates a short, DOS-compatible (8.3) alias filename. This short alias filename might end up matching a wildcard expression, even when the long filename does not. When using pdftk, the result is that you end up with more input files than you wanted.
This article offers a couple workarounds and then describes the case where this problem arose.
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Contributed by:
Sid Steward
[06/21/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Tracking Amazon SalesRank with Rankforest
Track an item's sales performance with the reflexes of a puma and the wisdom of a man. |
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Contributed by:
romej.com
[06/07/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Using Google to Find Celebrity Birthdays and Heights
Google can be used to get the height or age of a celebrity. |
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Contributed by:
romej.com
[06/06/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Fast LILO boot floppy
Sometimes you want to leave the hard drive's boot setup alone, But booting from floppy is too slow or your bootimages (bzImage + initrd) don't fit on the floppy. Make a Linux Loader floppy that uses bootimages on the hard drive. |
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Contributed by:
clsgis
[06/05/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Speeding Up Firefox
How to make Firefox load faster |
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Contributed by:
Ferraridude
[05/31/05 | Discuss (1) | Link to this hack] |
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Losing saved folder views in XP desktop folders
A documented annoyance in XP is a sudden and irreparable loss of memory between different folders even after all precautions have been taken. Here is a fix. |
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Contributed by:
claudduffield
[05/16/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Simple insecure hack for saving passwords
A quick bash script I use to recall non-vital passwords. |
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Contributed by:
bremac
[05/11/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Mining Popular Books and Movies in Social Networks
I describe how I generated a list of most cited books and movies from the profiles of the people who are connected to me at Orkut, Google's online social-networking service. |
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Contributed by:
Upster
[05/11/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Deluxe Google scraper bookmarklet
Scrapes the search links from a Google search results page and produces an HTML table that can be imported to Excel. |
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Contributed by:
David Crossman
[04/21/05 | Discuss (1) | Link to this hack] |
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View microsoft word documents with less
Hack #52 in Linux Destop Hacks introduced wvWare doc viewer. This hack allows it to be used in conjunction with the pager less. |
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Contributed by:
trexx
[04/20/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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