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The best free and reliable cloning tool

Pros and cons of free cloning tool Clonzilla. Short tutorial about cloning bigger disk to smaller one, using that tool.

Can't boot Qubes VMs error "Document is empty, line 1, column 1"

If You will recive such error in QUBES during vm start (www is name of VM): You need to run: find /var/lib/qubes -name 'firewall.xml' and delete all files that You mentioned command will find. Of course it is good to verify contents of those files before deletion

QUBES OS - KNOW-HOW

Idea of that entry is to gather all needed informations for person who is considering installation of QUBES. It is a big project, so it is clear that devs can't react on all issues immediately and make easy step by step tutorial for everybody. I planed to write that some

Ghost CMS upgrade - script for lazy admins - UPDATE2

I have made small updates to that script e.g. switched to supervisor [http://supervisord.org/introduction.html] as it is much more reliable, especially if You have more then one blog on same host. Earlier version of that entry [https://wojtek.gustowski.pl/ghost-cms-upgrade-script-for-lazy-admins-update/]

Fedora 23/24 - HOWTO: flash 23 in Firefox

1. Remove Your old flash plugin (if You have it) dnf remove flash-plugin 2. Add rpmfusion repo http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration 3. Install converter dnf update dnf install freshplayerplugin 4. Go to: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ [http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/] and chose FP 23.0 for.

Ghost CMS upgrade - script for lazy admins - UPDATE

> New version of that entry [https://wojtek.gustowski.pl/ghost-cms-upgrade-script-for-lazy-admins-update2/] I updated that script on my github account (cosmetic updates, casper update included). Now there are two versions: > 1. For ghost installs that uses system service 2. For ghost installs that uses forever Check it here: https://github.com/gustlik/

Raspberry Pi + MPD + Last.fm + wifi

Hi, There are plenty of preconfigured packs for Raspberry Pi with MPD [https://www.musicpd.org/] and Last.fm like RuneAudio [http://www.runeaudio.com/] for example. I used RuneAudio for some time, but I had problems with connecting RPi through wifi (device was connected, but I was unable to

HP Microserver N40L BIOS mod

I have finally upgrade BIOS in my N40L using that guide: > http://www.nathanielperez.us/blog/hp-proliant-n40l-bios-modification-guide I can confirm that everything works flawlessly. Łukasz M.- You can proceed with Your's :P

Fedora 24 fix network manager VPN

I found that on clear install of Fedora 24 VPN connections (with network manager) are not working out of the box. There was no visible error, actually nothing happened, but when I typed: journalctl -u NetworkManager I received such error: To fix it, You need to edit /etc/modules-load.d/

Fix Windows EFI partition from Linux

If You will remove your windows efi partition by mistake, this method could help You. It will work only, if rest of Windows partitions are OK. You will need: > 1. another Windows machine > 2. USB drive Go to another windows machine and copy EFI folder (contains Microsoft folder and rest

Ghost CMS upgrade - script for lazy admins

> New version of that entry [https://wojtek.gustowski.pl/ghost-cms-upgrade-script-for-lazy-admins-update/] I made short script for easier upgrade of Ghost [https://ghost.org/] (self hosted version). At the moment Ghost [https://ghost.org/] is still in development before version 1.0 so there is no official script for upgrade. I took

Mikrotiks basics

I want to show few most important steps that should be done on every mt device. It is directed to users that don't know Mikrotik's well, but need to configure one and don't know where to start. It is not straight "copy -> paste" HOW-TO but rather "please dig here

Mikrotik backup from linux

Hi, It is short post about how to create backup of Mikrotik device from Linux server. It is nothing new, because there are plenty of such solutions around the internet, especially on Mikrotik wiki [http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Main_Page]. This one is modified by me and it is

IBM Notes in Linux

This story took place few months ago. Objective: Install IBM Notes on Linux, dual boot with Windows 10 (Secure Boot) IBM Notes is closed source software, so you can't compile it yourself. Only possibility is to download packages from IBM site. Unfortunately those packages were made only for 32bit version