We introduced how to create a LVM group with two hard disk partitions, which the LVM group can be used for installing LVM backed Xen DomUs. The LVM volume can have large capacity from several hard disks. However, we may use all the disk space after some time and we may need to extend the […]
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Open Source and Portable SSH, SCP, SFTP and VNC Clients for Windows to Remote Control Linux
ssh, scp, sftp and vnc are frequently used tools (both servers and clients) on Linux. We may want to remote control a Linux box from Windows such as when we make demostration in a meeting while our work are done on the Linux box. There are lots open source SSH, SCP, SFTP and VNC clients for […]
Jailbreaking Apple iPod Touch with Spirit in Linux
How to jailbreak Apple iPod touch in Linux will be introduced in this article. We use Spirit to jailbreak iPod touch. Spirit[1] is an untethered jailbreak for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch on certain firmware versions. Please read [1] for requirement when using Spirit. Currently, the version of iTunes used should be iTune 9 earlier […]
A Simple Makefile for Latex
Compiling a latex documents may take several steps when bibtex is used with latex. However, this latex compilation process is the same for most documents. We can make it a template with Makefile so that simply running make will generate the dvi/ps/pdf files for us. A simple Makefile for using latex with bibtex enabled is […]
Minimizes Thunderbird Windows into the System Tray
I usually keep Thunderbird open when my computer is open. But Thunderbird is minimized to the taskbar. It will be more convenient if it is minimized or closed to the system tray as an icon.It will be better if it can display the number of unread messages. Mozilla’s software’s addon system give the method to […]