Issue Device Manager displays only non-Plug and Play devices, drivers, and printers when you click Show hidden devices on the View menu. Devices that you install that are not connected to the computer (such as a Universal Serial Bus [USB] device or “ghosted” devices) are not displayed in Device Manager, even when you click Show hidden devices. Workaround Click Start, click Run, and type: cmd Click Ok »
You can use the dd and nc commands for exact disk mirroring from one server to another. The following commands send data from Server1 to Server2: Server2# nc -l 12345 | dd of=/dev/sdb Server1# dd if=/dev/sda | nc server2 12345 Make sure that you issue Server2’s command first so that it’s listening on port 12345 when Server1 starts sending its data. Unless you’re sure that the disk is not being modified, it’s better to boot Server1 from a RescueCD or LiveCD to do the copy. »
This error occurs because the version of rsync on the system cannot preserve modified times for directories. Run rsync with the following arguments to suppress this warning: rsync -avPO ./source/* ./destination Explanation of switches: a -> Archive mode (do not preserve hard links, ACLs, or extended attributes) v -> Verbose (I like to know what is happening) P -> Equivalent to --partial --progress (for long transfers that may be interrupted) O -> Omit directories from times »
A simple one-liner and ffmpeg, basename, and cut gets this done. for i in *.f4v; do ffmpeg -i `basename $i` -s 320x240 `basename $i | cut -d'.' -f1`.jpg; done Thumbnail output size is configurable with the -s switch. »
emerge pciutils mkinitrd mkdir /etc/rc.d cd /etc/rc.d for i in seq 0 6; do mkdir rc$i.d; done File -> Install VMware Tools mount /mnt/cdrom cd /tmp tar xvfz /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-3.5.0-158874.tar.gz cd vmware-tools-distrib/ ./vmware-install.pl All defaults with the exception of: * /etc/rc.d -> location of the rc.d directories * /etc/init.d -> location of the init scripts When prompted to run vmware-tools-config, decline rc-update add vmware-tools default /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl Verify that everything compiles without error. »