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To be honest I’ve never been a big fan of Acer products. There are various reasons why… (cheap quality, crappy hardware, etc…). Anyway I bought my little brother a netbook, the “Acer Aspire One D150″. And I have to say we never had problems with it, which improved my overall impression of Acer I had. …

More than a recover this is a root password reset. To be able to execute all these commands you need a shell root access on the box you are trying to reset. First stop the mysql deamon: [codesyntax lang="bash"] $ /etc/init.d/mysql stop # the gentle way $ killall -9 mysqld_safe && killall -9 mysqld # …

Long time I’ve been searching for a decent automounter on gentoo, first I was using simply the autofs deamon. I also used ivman for a short time. Now I’m using halevt which is a good median between “resource consume” and functionality. Installing and configuring it is quite easy: [codesyntax lang="bash"] $ emerge halevt $ emerge …

On Desktop or Notebook systems it does sense to run once in a while a emerge –depclean on gentoo. This commands checks whether there are packages on the system that where needed as dependency of removed packages and removes them. All good so far, but a “side-effect” of this command is that sometimes quite crucial …