LUKS + LVM root on Debian is a breeze, in fact the installer does everything for you. And the Ubuntu Desktop CD? Well, not so much, unfortunately. You could use the alternate or server CD, but this was not possible for me, I only had the desktop CD on a USB Stick. In any case, since Ubuntu also uses apt, its really just more or less a matter of installing what’s missing, dpkg will do the rest!
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Ruby .txt to .html link script for Rapidshare
So you know what’s really annoying? How many downloaders people are trying to sell! I love DownThemAll for firefox, its a great plug-in that i highly recommend. Unfortunately you can’t just add a list of links. You have to have “clickable” links for it to work. Well that sucks, I guess you have to get [...]
Ruby Batch Rename Script
So I’ve recently gotten into scripting in ruby and with a couple of scripts you really can save yourself a lot of tedious work in the future. Here’s one i wrote that does a batch rename of all files in a given folder and its subfolders. You can do either of the following:
Enter 3 parameters:
input [...]
Hackintosh Bonjour woes (avahi-daemon)
After hours of searching, compiling avahi-daemon myself, crying and sleepless nights it turns out if you are running Mac OS on non-apple hardware, and you have a mainboard with a Realtek r1000 series card (i.e. my ga-ep45-ds4) you should definitely use the RealtekR1000 driver if you want bonjour!
Although the hardware is detected by default, somehting isn’t supported [...]