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Running Wuala as a daemon
Bitcoind on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
I was running bitcoin on my computer, but when I log out, the bitcoin program stops. Because I wanted to generate coins also when not logged in, I wanted to run the bitcoin daemon. Finally I got around to figure out how.
First I needed to install the bitcoin package 0.3.24-ppa2~maverick
How to reduce PDF filesize from the Linux command line
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
Grub2
I knew Grub2 was coming and I would have to figure out how to use it. The grub terminal has somewhat changed; e.g. the kernel command got replaced by the linux command. To get my MacMini booting from the grub terminal I need the following commands:
root (hd0,4)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4
boot
Disk dumps (dd) over the network (netcat)
On the receiving machine (booted from live CD or similarly inactive partition sda):
netcat -l -p 4778 | dd of=/dev/sda
On the sending machine (booted from live CD or similarly inactive partition sdb):
dd if=/dev/sdb | netcat 192.168.0.4 4778
(-l listen; -p port)