Want To Boot Linux From A Flash Drive?

I have tried a lot of different Linux distro’s, they all have iso’s you can put on a CD. But this would take a crazy number of CD’s.  There are ways to put a distro on a USB flash drive yourself see pendrivelinux.com.  What if you just don’t want to bother with installing different pieces of software to get the USB flash drive to boot?

Fix Kopete Crashing On MSN Sign In

“Mini How To”: Fix Kopete Crashing On MSN Sign In

Why?

I have experienced some crashes with my Kopete lately.  Every time MSN would try to sign in Kopete would crash.  I searched around on the Internet.  But couldn’t really find an answer.

So I’ll provide one for people having the same problems.

The Solution For A Crashing Kopete

The solution is really quite simple just remove the configuration files.  Here is the thing Kopete has those files in two places.  Both located in the .kde/share/. Run the following commands in Terminal to remove the files.

dd With Progress Bar? Try dcfldd

“Mini How To” dd With Progress Bar? Try dcfldd.

Introduction

As you know dd works very well but it has no progress bar.  There is really no way to tell how far along dd is.  This is annoying if you are waiting for dd to finish.  In this how to I’ll show you how to install and use dcfldd.

How To Install dcfldd

Open terminal or adept or synaptec what ever is you flavor of choice.  In the latter search for dcfldd.  In terminal Type:

How To Search Terminal Commands Recently Used

“Mini How To” How To Search Terminal Commands Recently Used.

Introduction

You know how to skip through the commands by using the arrow up and down keys but wouldn’t it be easier to search through the commands?  In this Mini How To I explain how to do it.

Recursive Search

You’ve typed in a long command for instance:

sudo hddtemp /dev/sda && sensors | grep Core\ 0 && sensors | grep Core\ 1

To check the temperatures of the machine that you’re working on.  You’ve checked it once and after a couple of days you want to use it again.  To do so as said you can scroll through the commands using the up and down arrow keys.  It might take while depending on how many commands you used after this one.

Clone A Drive With dd

“Mini How To” Clone A Drive With dd

Cloning under Windows always requires a third party application.  In Linux we can use a build in command to clone a drive.

Why And When Would You Need This.

You can use this for a number of applications.

• Imaging a drive to a iso file.
• Clone a defective harddrive to save data.
• Replace a harddrive for a bigger one.

Keep in mind that there are more efficient ways of doing this.  But if you need to clone a drive or make an image of a hard drive, and you only have access to a Live CD.  Then using dd is a great way to do this.  Also it does not matter if the harddrive has ntfs of ext3 or any of the other file systems dd will image the harddrive not matter what file system is on the drive.