Alina Swietochowska’s blogs
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Creation time in Unix? Yes – in ext4
14 July 2010
One of the most popular questions in a UNIX class is: why doesn’t UNIX store file creation time? Well, in ext4 it does . The ext4 file system has now been available for a while, but so far Ubuntu is the only distribution installing it by default.
Update you SSL Citrix certificate
08 July 2010
If you get “You have chosen not to trust...” message when connecting to a Citrix server, it probably means your SSL certificate is out of date...
MBR recovery
04 May 2010
Main disk in a PC starts with the Master Boot Record, a 512-bytes block storing the boot loader, the disk partition table and the “magic number” (AA55). Without a good MBR, system will not boot…For that reason, the ability to recover the MBR is very important, especially if the activities relating to disk partitioning or dual-boot scenarios are experimented with.
Getting to know xz as the best compression tool
15 April 2010
Unix world has been through quite a few compression tools. The original is compress . It is now only provided for compatibility, if at all. It’s been succeeded by procession of ever faster and more effective compression tools, such as zip, gzip, bzip2, then lzip and now xz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz).
Fixing a Windows crashed disk
18 March 2010
Linux people spend significant amount of time fixing various peoples’ Windows installations. Content here is the precise ‘cut & paste’ from an advise given on NLUG...
A gap year?
17 March 2010
Blogging or Twittering? Which one is better? Fight! Or, perhaps – each one has its role to play...
Booting from CD/DVD from inside VMware guest
28 June 2009
Resolving hardware...
Forcing Solaris 10 to recognise network interface
10 June 2009
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