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To know if TRIM is enabled for a particular drive, open “System Profiler” and search for the “TRIM enable” information in the “Serial ATA sub-tree”. If TRIM is not enabled,

It is not obvious to choose and get a 3D printer. There is quite a lot a choices on the market which can be divided in two categories: pre-assembled and

The WiFi USB dongles based on the newest RT5572 chip set do not work out of the box on Ubuntu.  Unex DNUR-V72, D-Link DWA-160 Rev B and TP-Link TL-WDN3200 dongles are

Channel Center Frequency (GHz) 1 2.412 2 2.417 3 2.422 4 2.427 5 2.432 6 2.437 7 2.442 8 2.447 9 2.452 10 2.457 11 2.462 12 2.467 13 2.472

It is possible to record a terminal session under Linux with ttyrec. It also records vi, emacs, etc. sessions. Fisrt, install ttyrec sudo apt-get install ttyrec To start recording a

A lot of people is having problem setting up a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse on the Raspberry PI. Things get more complicated when your wired keyboard or mouse does not

You can initialize your Raspberry PI wireless connection automatically at boot time if the instructions given in a previous post entitled How To Setup A Protected Wireless Connection Via The

Setting up a wireless connection via the command line may vary depending on the USB Wireless Interface you are using. These instructions also work for the Raspberry PI running Wheezy.

Postfix can replace an outgoing email address by another one. To do so, you must perform these steps: Add in /etc/postfix/main.cf the following line smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic_maps Add in hash:/etc/postfix/generic_maps a

Most of the time, having a journal for ext3 and ext4 partitions is pretty useful. Nevertheless, you can prevent creating a journal by adding the option ^has_journal. For example: mkfs

“parted” is a replacement for “fdisk” of Linux.  It can handle disks larger than 2 TB.  Issue this command to launch “parted” where /dev/sdL is the disk you want to

Source code of Android can be downloaded by following these steps: $ mkdir ~/bin $ PATH=~/bin:$PATH $ curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo > ~/bin/repo $ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo $ mkdir WORKING_DIRECTORY $ cd

This post lists the main steps in order to install an Android development environment for Windows 7.  The developement environment relies on Eclipse.  Download a JDK (7u3)  from the following

Unmount the partition umount /mnt Unmap the partition cryptsetup luksClose securebackup

Map the partition cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdXN securebackup Mount the partition mount /dev/mapper/securebackup /mnt

To setup partition encryption on Ubuntu, perform the following steps: Install the required software apt-get install cryptsetup For more security, erase the partition you want to encrypt with one of

It is possible to backup and restore the activation status of Windows 7 Backing up the activation files To backup the activation status, backup the following files. Administrator access rights

The loop device on Unix lets access a file as a block device.  Disks are block devices.  So, it is possible to use a file as a disk.  The first

You can set the brightness of the display by issuing this command within a shell echo 3 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness where 3 is the brightness level. Its value is from 0

Simply create a file named /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars and put into it the following line: export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 or simply execute the following command echo “export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0” > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars You need to do