In rare cases, the FX-5800P calculator may experience firmware corruption, displaying ROM!!!!! on startup. Here's a comprehensive guide...

To enable slow query monitoring in MySQL or MariaDB, run these commands in your client: SET GLOBAL slow_query_log = 1; SET GLOBAL long_query...

To format a partition (e.g. sda1) as LUKS with an HMAC integrity layer: cryptsetup luksFormat --type=luks2 --integrity hmac-sha256 /dev/sda1...

In Linux, the P4 parameter below will launch 4 LAME instances in parallel to process all the FLAC files into MP3 with the given LAME setting...

To find all writable by the current user files under the working directory: find . -writable To find the non writable ones: find . ! -writab...

If Linux Mint refuses to mount an encrypted external drive that was abruptly disconnected and gives you a message like "file already ex...

Adding setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll de,us to your ~/.bashrc (or manually running it after LXDE has start...

The following commands, will mount a VirtualBox VDI file on Linux. First make the directory where you'll mount the virtual partition fil...

On Linux: find -printf "%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n" | sort -n will show sorted by modification date all the files under the working dire...

If you have an ELF binary in your current directory named luajit, run the following command to see which shared libraries it depends on: rea...

x="$(head -15 testfile.txt)" This would store the first 15 lines of testfile.txt in variable x.

It seems that the most popular article on this blog is " How to make portable applications " written back in 2007. Reading it aga...

This article probably also applies to: VGN-FZ38M Yeap I bought it. I though that since it had an NVidia card and it was Centrino based etc i...

[The script has been updated on 12 Apr 2008] I just adapted the SuperStealmore script to work with Emesene . As with the aMSN version you ...

aMSN is a nice, alternative MSN client for Windows and Linux. I use it on my computer and it works quite nice. It has most of the features ...

Compiz is composite window manager for Linux. It's a program that manages the placement and drawing of windows on your screen. At the s...

If you just switched from Windows to Ubuntu Linux you might have missed some application like Google Earth or Skype . For easy installatio...

Don't read this article. I've written a much better one which you can find here . The purpose of this (late-night) post is to sho...