by Jason L Froebe on January 27, 2013, no comments
Most people that want to speed up Firefox know about the various settings in about:config but many forget that Firefox uses SQLite databases that can become cluttered. In your home directory ($HOME on *nix/Mac and %APPDIR% on Windows), run sqlite3 with vacuum, reindex and analyze on eche of the *.sqlite databases. Don’t have sqlite3? No [...]
by Jason L Froebe on October 19, 2012, one comment
We watch movies and TV shows upstairs primarily streamed from a Windows 7 Media Center machine through an XBox 360. When I we ran out of room on the Drobo, I moved the movies to an Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 (Linux) stored on a RAID5 array (samba share). Since I’m using My Movies for media management, [...]
by Jason L Froebe on October 18, 2012, one comment
by Jason L Froebe on October 3, 2012, no comments
Rebecca Stoler Froebe let me install Ubuntu 12.04: Precise Pangolin on to her three year old laptop. What was installed: Ubuntu Linux 12.04 (32bit) PlayOnLinux to run Windows applications and games (e.g. Microsoft Office and Civilization 4) Dozens of Linux games Printer driver for our HP Printer/Scanner downstairs VLC to play the Windows Media Center [...]
by Jason L Froebe on October 3, 2012, no comments
So you made an image of a harddrive using dd or ddrescue with something like: sudo ddrescue -v -b 512M /dev/sda r.img Linux Lo and behold, you can’t just mount the r.img file. You need to determine the offset of the partition you want to mount: fdisk -u -l r.img Disk r.img: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 [...]