Recent Posts Tagged With Linux

• ATI Catalyst 9.9 / fglrx 8.650 Installation

  Posted on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 10:27 am in Linux, ati catalyst, fglrx, fglrx installation, fglrx removal

  When upgrading the fglrx driver, don’t get lazy about removing the previous version. Besides the old configuration possibly still in use after a reboot, you get serious memory leaks in Xorg caused by the ATI Catalyst driver that resemble the sa...

• Postix catch-all. The proper way…

  Posted on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 11:34 am in Linux, postfix, postfix catch-all

  An issue I recently encountered with some mail servers was poor MTA reputation. Even though the servers were only used for corporate email, somehow their MTA is poor at senderbase, even though none of the IP’s are on a single RBL/SBL. This is p...

• Evolution Mail 2.26.1 – Not deleting trash

  Posted on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 09:53 am in Linux, bash, evolution mail, evolution mail trash

  After switching from windoz to Linux, I immediately started using Evolution Mail after being an Outlook user for many years. Evolution in many ways is better than Outlook besides being free, but there is a small issue. Sometimes, somehow and someway ...

• Adjusting Contrast, Brightness and Gamma on fglrx 9.5+

  Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 02:01 pm in Linux, contrast, brightness, gamma, fglrx, jaunty 9.04, ati proprietary, xgamma, fglrx_xgamma

  ATI has made a change in their fglrx catalyst drivers (9.5+) where setting the gamma in xorg.conf no longer works and is ignored when starting. In my previous post I went over setting and making these adjustments. The previous methods for Contrast an...

• Howto prevent and block repeat failed connections to ssh with iptables

  Posted on Saturday August 8th, 2009 at 08:07 am in Linux, ssh, iptables

  The following iptable entries will prevent and block repeat failed connections, but not permanently. This allows two new connections every 60 seconds. This is an effective way of blocking automated attacks you will see mostly from Chinese ISP’s...

• Howto allow outgoing ftp connections in iptables

  Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 01:24 pm in php, Linux, ftp, iptables

  From terminal, execute the following; sudo modprobe ip_nat_ftp ports=21 sudo modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp sudo iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -m tcp -m state --dport 21 --state NEW -j ACCEPT s...

• Fullscreen Video Playback, Jaunty 9.04, Xorg

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 11:59 am in Linux, x11, xorg, fullscreen video, jaunty 9.04

  If you’re having issues with fullscreen video playback, this may help. The issues may range from hard lock’s and crashes to poor performance and flickering. The flickering issues may not go away with this tweak, but performance should be ...

• Bash script to automate mounting and unmounting of nfs shares

  Posted on Saturday June 6th, 2009 at 12:06 pm in Linux, mount, bash, umount, mount point, nfs share, showmount

  This is a small script I wrote that automates creating a directory for the mount point and then mounts the nfs share on that diretory. It also accommodates removal when needed and unmount’s the nfs share and removes the directory that was creat...

• Create ISO/Disk Image from DVD/CDROM on Linux

  Posted on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 10:01 am in Linux, dd, create iso, create disk image

  This is a quick guide to creating an ISO/Disk Image on Linux from your DVD or CDROM drive. Insert the dvd/cd into your optical reader drive (obviously ;p) If it is automatically mounted, you will need to unmount it. On my laptop, my dvd drive is /de...

• Avant Window Navigator - Folder Icon for File Browser Launcher Applet

  Posted on Sunday May 31st, 2009 at 11:06 pm in Linux, avant window navigator, file browser launcher applet

  On the latest build of AWN (0.3.2), the folder icon is broken. To fix this; do the following below; Line 60 of /usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/file-browser-launcher/file-browser-launcher.py Original: self.icon = self.set_awn_icon('file-brow...

• Xorg Memory Leak Fix for Jaunty 9.04 ATI Proprietary fglrx

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 04:48 pm in Linux, fglrx, jaunty 9.04, ati proprietary, xorg memory leak fix

  Memory leak fixed on my sony vaio laptop with an HD3400 series. NOT completely, xorg will still leak over time (about 60mb over 8 hours and I think some of this memory is re-used for effects which will not increase the memory any further when opening...

• ATI Proprietary fglrx Minimize/Maximize Fix for Jaunty 9.04

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 04:34 pm in Linux, fglrx, jaunty 9.04, ati proprietary, fglrx lag fix

  After a few weeks, a patch has been released a few days ago that fixes the fglrx lag when minimizing, maximizing or opening a window on ubuntu jaunty 9.04. The lag was severe freezing the entire desktop for 1-3 seconds, almost making desktop effects ...

• Adjusting Contrast, Brightness and Gamma on Linux. ATI Proprietary Driver (fglrx).

  Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 03:46 pm in Linux, contrast, brightness, gamma, fglrx, jaunty 9.04, ati proprietary, xgamma

  If you have the ati driver installed correctly and have xorg setup correctly, you can easily change the brightness, contrast and gamma on linux. I could not find anywhere on google a single search result except for setting gamma, so I post this here....

• Ubuntu Jaunty: ATI Restricted Proprietary FGLRX Driver, Direct Rendering, Mobility Radeon HD Series

  Posted on Saturday May 2nd, 2009 at 09:43 am in Linux, fglrx, ubuntu jaunty, direct rendering, jaunty 9.04, ati proprietary

  To start off I am no expert. I am a windows convert about a week ago now. However, I’m grabbing Linux by the horns and loving it! The reason I am posting this is because it took me several hours to figure this out. I could not find in one place...