How to debug/check network-related driver information on Linux?
Several commands/tools that you may find usefull:
Messages:
dmesg
grep NetworkManager /var/log/messages
lshw: list hardware
lshw -c network
lsusb: list USB devices
lsusb
rfkill: enabling and disabling wireless devices
rfkill unblock all
rfkill event
iwconfig: configure a wireless network interface
iwconfig
ifconfig: configure a network interface
ifconfig
What are the Google Chrome keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Linux and Windows? Keyboard shortcuts of Chrome can make it easier to control the browser and save our time. Here are a list of commonly used shortcuts: Ctrl+T Opens a new tab. Press Ctrl and click a link. Or click a link with your middle…
Unfortunately, my C: drive is almost full. Most of the space are used by the user home under C:Users. How can I move the home directory to another drive while not affecting the user’s usage of Windows. On Linux/Unix, moving the directory to another drive/partition and then keeping a softlink is enough. But how to…
How to change an attachment’s parent post in WordPress? The in WordPress posts depends on the child-parent relationship. It will be good to change the parent posts for attachments. The Change Media Parent WordPress plugin works great for me. After installing and activating it, a link to change the parent appears in the media control…
I have done some I/O performance benchmark test of Xen DomU. For easier management, some of our DomU VMs are using file-backed VBDs. Previously, our VMs are using Loopback-mounted file-backed VBDs. But blktap-based support are recommended by Xen community. Before considering changing from loopback based VBD to blktap based VBD, I have done this performance…
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I have a very large (e.g. 100GB) .gz file and would like to split it into smaller files like 8GB/each for storage/copying. How to split a gzip file to several small ones on Linux? You may use the tool split to split a file by sizes. An example to split a large.tgz to at most…