Archive for August, 2005

New header for Kubrick

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

A cool service called Kubrickr makes it really easy to create a new header for the Kubrick theme for WordPress (probably the most popular blog theme in the world). Enter a tag to search for, select one of the suggested images, crop it online and save the resulting image (borders included!) to your WordPress installation.

I found a nice picture by Chris Darling that I’ll try out for a while…

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Quick-starting Knoppix in (Windows) rescue mode

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
  • Boot knoppix
  • Open a shell prompt and enter sudo su (or start a root shell through the Knoppix menu)
  • Change the knoppix password with passwd knoppix
  • Enable networking by removing the block, rm /etc/hosts.deny, rm /etc/hosts.allow
  • Check the IP of the machine with ifconfig. If you don’t have a DHCP server on your network, you need to set an IP manually.
  • Start SSH server with /etc/init.d/ssh start
  • Enable FTP by restarting inetd: /etc/init.d/inetd restart
  • Share the windows drives by creating a dir (for example /windows) and putting soft links in that dir to /mnt/hda1, /mnt/hda2 etc
  • Then use the trick from my previous weblog post to share the dir through samba without passwords.
  • Start VNC server by installing it with apt-get install vncserver and starting it with vncserver -geometry 1024x768

Some hints:

  • If you started Knoppix without a mouse, you can open the KDE menu with ALT-F1.
  • I’ve found that the fastest way to backup files from a damaged HD is with rsync.
    Most tips come from the great Knoppix wiki.

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