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Saturday, November 05, 2016

Dell Precision 15 7510 Running CentOS 7.5

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I set up my new laptop/mobile workstation. It's a certified refurbished Dell Precision 15 7510 from eBay. I'm pretty satisfied with ...
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Sunday, October 09, 2011

Using rsync to migrate data between Linux and Apple Mac OS X

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I got a new MacBook Air running Mac OS X (10.7.1) "Lion", and I managed to migrate my archive data (around 1.3TB) from an old Lin...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

openSUSE Build Service (OBS): Break the Link Between a Branched Package and Its Source

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We are using openSUSE Build Service (OBS) for the development of MeeGo. I have an old package, which was branched from a Trunk package long ...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Easy way to align Linux partitions for SSD and myths debunked

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Recently I got a laptop from my employer with an Intel X25-M SSD drive in it. I have spent some time trying to figure out the best and easie...
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Monday, December 20, 2010

MeeGo: Auto-Start an Application on Session Start

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For modern Linux desktop, it's a common way to auto-start an application in a user-session by placing a ".desktop" file into /...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Very hard to make bootable USB drive from Ubuntu 10.10's CD Image

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I was spoiled by MeeGo's super convenient USB live image so I was very surprised when I found that it was very hard to make a bootable U...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Google Chrome (Chromium) Sync Server Address

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If you want to know the host name and address of the sync server Google Chrome (or Chromium) uses, see here: http://src.chromium.org/svn/tru...
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