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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Recovering Windows XP Codes
Today I had a bit of a challenge. I had a broken Windows XP system that wouldn’t even boot into safe mode. I had already decided to re-install, but didn’t know what key was used to install it.
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Reinstalling a package using Yum
You can force the re-installation of a package using:
rpm -e –justdb –nodeps <package-name>
yum install <package-name>
This can be really useful if you’ve accidentally removed some components of the package, or perhaps hacked around with config files so much that you just … Continue reading
Website Update
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the new Liquidstate website. The last version was looking a little dated, and the lack of decent back-end editing software meant that I never really updated it as often as I wanted.
So, Im now back with a … Continue reading
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Setting up NIS
The Network Information Service or NIS (originally called Yellow Pages or YP) is a client-server directory service protocol for distributing system configuration data such as users, groups, or host names between computers.
Typically, NIS becomes invaluable when you have a local … Continue reading
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Mount NTFS partitions on RHEL
The goals of the Linux-NTFS project are to develop reliable and full feature access to NTFS by the Linux kernel driver and by a user space driver (ntfsmount), and to provide a wide collection of NTFS utilities and a developer’s … Continue reading
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