I’m running Arch64 on my work computer. This morning, I decided to upgrade to the newer packages. After rebooting, the kernel wouldn’t boot. I received the error Kernel panic – not cyncing: VFS Unable to…
Arch Linux utilizes the Pacman package manager. Here are some of the most used commands: pacman -Ss package Searches the remote server for the package pacman -Sy Syncs pacman with the remote server pacman -Su…
Today, I decided to retire my old 19-inch CRT monitor and replace it with a Samsung Synmaster940BW. Using Sax2, I couldn’t get it to the native 1440×900 resolution. I tried everything, using the Samsung driver,…
Recently, I needed to change a link on multiple pages of a website. After a little trial and error, the best way to do this is using perl on the command line: perl -p -i…
There is a handy little *nix program that allows you to copy a disk image from one disk to another called dd dd bs=32k if=/dev/da*** of=/dev/da*** conv=noerror,notrunc,sync bs=32k block size if=/dev/da*** the path to the…