Monthly Archive for December, 2006

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How-To fix UTF-8 Issues on Mandriva 2007 Upgrade

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bad-file-character-encoding-utf-81 If you updated your Mandriva from 2006 to 2007 and you’ve done that manually, some of your files in your home directory may look like the one on the screenshot. This is due to the adoption of UTF-8 as the default character encoding for file systems in Mandriva. Normally the conversion is done automatically at install, so if you’ve upgrade your Mandriva manually…

Well, to fix this, it’s quite easy and explained on the following Mandriva wiki page: UTF8 issue when reinstalling and keeping a previous /home that was not in UTF8. The convert-filenames-to-utf8.pl script will do everything for you !

Usefull Commands: Hardware

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  • Low-level format of the hda device: 
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
  • Same as above but for paranoïd, as random bits will be written 3 times before performing the “low-level format” (i.e. writting zeros): 
    shred --verbose --force --iterations=3 --zero /dev/hda
  • To add touchpad kernel support, add the following option to kernel at boot time: 
    psmouse.proto=imps
  • Sometimes, depending of the laptop I use, the mouse pointer disappear from the screen when I plug a VGA cable to a projector. In this case, I do a CTRL + ALT + F1, then I login as a normal user and finally I start a new X session: 
    startx -- :1

Grisbi 0.5.9 for Mandriva 2007

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grisbi-0591 The latest version of Grisbi, a french personnal accounting software, is now available in my personnal RPM repository for Mandriva 2007.0.