Category Archives: Linux

Tiny Core Linux – Shrink your Virtual Machines to nothing

Posted on 16. April 2011 by fsormok

This is a little HowTo creating a really small (<10MiB) VMWare image based on Tiny Core Linux with openssh installed. It also explains how to create packages and install your own extension-repository... enjoy and have fun! Please comment... Continue reading →

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Backup and restore

Posted on 11. January 2011 by missing_link

backup tar cvpzf /place/to/backup/user/backup-`date ‘+%Y%m%d’`.tar.gz /home/user –exclude=/home/user/.Trash restore tar xvpfz backup+++++date+++++.tgz -C /

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Real Media (realplayer) & Firefox in Fedora (9)

Posted on 11. January 2011 by missing_link

Make all as root! mv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so. NOT mv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.xp t.NOT mv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-complex-plugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-co mplex-plugin.so.NOT mv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-c omplex-plugin.xpt.NOT yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33 Install realplayer 10 rpm (not 11 and not helixplayer), i used RealPlayer-10.0.9.809-20070726.i586.rpm Start Real Player from … Continue reading →

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Claws-Mail & Firefox

Posted on 11. January 2011 by missing_link

This describes how to sending Links in Firefox via Claws-Mail. First create a Script called mailto.sh with Content: #!/bin/sh # mailto.sh exec sylpheed-claws –compose “$1” Make it executable: $ chmod +x mailto.sh Type about:config in the Firefox URL-Field. Check that … Continue reading →

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