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Mounting a disk image file with partitions

Sun, 04/17/2011 - 13:22 — tom

In Linux you can easily make a backup of a whole disk, including MBR (partition table) and different types of filesystems with dd. While this is very useful, how can you access individual partitions later without "extracting" them from the image? "kpartx" is the command you need.

Asterisk "That is not a valid conference number, please try again"

Mon, 01/18/2010 - 17:03 — tom

Problem: you've configured a conference call room with the MeetMe application in Asterisk, but when you call it, a voice says "That is not a valid conference number, please try again".

Audio and Video over HDMI with Ubuntu on Dell Studio 15

Sun, 07/05/2009 - 18:48 — tom

If you have a notebook or pc with HDMI output and a big LCD TV with HDMI input, you might want to connect those. Unfortunately, this doesn't work out-of-the-box with the Dell Studio 15 notebook, neither with Vista nor with Ubuntu.
Now I got it working both in Vista and Ubuntu (8.10 - Intrepid Ibex).

Ubuntu Linux and Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T Stick Solo (72e revision)

Fri, 10/03/2008 - 00:45 — tom

Saturday January 26th (last update April 15th, new firmware: October 3th 2008)
Picture of Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T Stick Solo (revision 72e)
I've finally bought a DVB-T receiver. I'm going to write down my first experiences here, hoping to
give some useful information for the people who bought this stick, or are considering buying it.

ET on Ubuntu 64-bit

Fri, 10/03/2008 - 00:27 — tom

Trying to install Enemy Territory - Return to castle Wolfenstein on a 64-bit Ubuntu installation? I ran into 2 problems, and this is how I solved them:

Ubuntu + Elisa media center

Mon, 09/08/2008 - 00:26 — tom

Klik op de Engelse vertaling van dit artikel voor een howto die beschrijft hoe ik een mediacenter pc heb geinstalleerd gebasseerd op Ubuntu en Elisa.

Ubuntu + Elisa media center

Mon, 09/08/2008 - 00:16 — tom

This article describes how I installed a dedicated setupbox, based on Elisa, running on the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

Ubuntu Linux and Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T Stick Solo (72e revision)

Sun, 09/07/2008 - 23:54 — tom

Toen ik zo'n Pinnacle usb stickje kocht, en ik wilde er mee beginnen werken (januari 2008), bleek dat je nog een aantal zaken moest doen alvorens het werkte. Toen heb ik er een artikeltje over geschreven. Ondertussen heb ik dat artikel wat proberen up to date houden, maar alvorens ik het vertaal ga ik het nog eens volledig nazien of alles nog klopt. klik op de Engels vertaling van dit artikel om het oorspronkelijke te kunnen zien.

DHCP + Dns (with dhcpd3 and bind9)

Sun, 09/07/2008 - 03:00 — tom

Dit bestand bevat de belangrijkste stukken uit een Bind9+DHCP3 configuratie met DDNS (Dynamic DNS). Hostnames van DHCP clienten in het netwerk kunnen dan dynamisch toegevoegd worden aan een zone in Bind9.

DHCP + Dns (with dhcpd3 and bind9)

Sun, 09/07/2008 - 02:58 — tom

This file contains the key parts of a Bind9+DHCP3 configuration with DDNS (Dynamic DNS), it adds hostnames of dhcp-clients to your Bind9 dynamicly. Comments in the file are in Dutch. I'll bother to translate if someone asks me kindly :)

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