I was in need to mount some image from Nero, and so i discovered an useful small program: CDEmu. CDEmu is a CD/DVD-ROM device emulator for linux, licensed under GPL v2 or later. It is a from-scratch rewrite of the legacy CDEmu project, which was started by Robert Penz. And while i was searching for […]
In a former article I’ve talked about script, to record a shell session from a terminal and a comment contained “ttyrec > script” So what’s ttryrec ?
dd seem an unfriendly command, but if you start to use it, you’ll see that it’s a powerful command able to do many different things, backup a partition, CD or USB stick for example or do some simple tests on the speed of your disks or your CPU. The man page say: dd is an […]
Today Ram disk has saved (at least temporary) one more customer, this time we have moved his Lucene index files from a local disk to /dev/shm; I’m not so sure this is the real solution but at least this gave us better performance and some time to study his application, to see if and where […]
Author: Kurt Hartman Jr First off, let me say that I am not one of those terminal loving Linux fans. I think it is cool and all, but I tend to save the command line for things that either require doing a massive batch job, or when I need to do something really specific. Other […]