The 419 fraud (after a formerly relevant section of the Criminal Code of Nigeria) is a form of advance fee fraud. It is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance relatively small sums of money in the hope of realizing a much larger gain. In brief, 419 is a sub-classification of Read more about 419 Fraud[…]
PCI Express is based on a serial protocol, which means that the interface can use a very small number of connectors. In doing so, the PCIe connections are clocked faster than the parallel busses (PCI, AGP) in order to obtain a high bandwidth. The bandwidth can be multiplied by merging several PCI Express lanes. The Read more about PCIe Basics[…]
How I got TwinView to work in Ubuntu. This only works with the binary Nvidia drivers. Beryl does work. First I made a backup of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file just in case something got messed up. Then I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and found the “Device” section. I added the following lines below the “Driver” line: Option “TwinView” Read more about TwinView: Ubuntu Howto[…]
When using a 32bit processor, the maximum memory that you can have in your machine is 4GB. Well, that isn’t totally true, because there are hacks to make your machine able to use more, but I won’t get too much into that. To come up with the 4GB of maximum addressable memory, you need only to Read more about Why can’t I use all of my 4GB of RAM?[…]
Screen is a command that will allow you to log in to a command terminal, start something running (compiling or such) and sever the connection, only to be able to come back to it later and find that the application that you had running is still running. For the example, I will show me compiling Read more about Linux Screen[…]
If you create a user in Linux and want that user to be able to access SMB shares, you must do the following: $ sudo smbpasswd -a This will ask you to type in your password (unless you are already sudoed) and then it will ask for the new SMB Password. Type it twice and Read more about Using SaMBa in Linux[…]