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When I became a LIFEBOOK4LIFE insider, the first thing I had in mind was to install a Linux distribution on the device. The UltrabookTM came with Windows7 installed on. Frankly I do not fancy it (though I must admit it is a relief after Windows Vista), as I live on Linux almost all the time. (more…)

Got my Fujitsu Lifebook UH572 finally – as a part of LIFEBOOK4Life insider activities.. The story starts at the customs office.. (more…)

If you are behind a firewall and you need to access a proxy server to connect, (more…)

As you mostly know Xen is open source industry standard virtualization. From http://xen.org:

The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating system

The term “guru” may be controversial, but even if you want to become an expert, you should always go into the source code. Therefore yhe best way to begin is to get the latest source archive of Xen, build and install it. Give it a shot!…

For various reasons you may want to force a check (fsck) of a filesystem you currently use (most likely the root / filesystem as you cannot umount it on-the-go). To achieve that do: (below is for the / mount)

    # touch /forcefsck

and after the reboot you’ll see that the fsck is being done.