Since I have other partitions on my HDD that I do not mount in my Archlinux, I did not want to see these drive icons on the desktop. There are few solutions to this, simple one is to disable all of these icons via Settings > Desktop > Icons and uncheck Removable devices, but this will also hide your USB flash disks when you insert them. I just wanted to selectively hide some of my HDD partitions from the desktop. Solution is to create this file, and to reboot your system. Maybe there is some systemctl trick on how to do it without restart but this works just as well. Continue reading “Select and hide unmounted drive icons from Xfce desktop”
Low volume workaround for snd_hda_intel in Linux
Add this to your /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "softvol"
}
pcm.softvol {
type softvol
slave {
pcm "dmix"
}
control {
name "Pre-Amp"
card 0
}
min_dB -5.0
max_dB 20.0
resolution 6
}Reboot after so that it takes effect.
Troubleshoot BackTrack5 Linux full disk encryption
I have used this great tutorial to install BackTrack 5 with full disk encryption on my laptop:
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OpenWRT with 3G/UMTS USB dongle Nokia CS15 on TP-LINK WR703N
Install packages:
opkg install comgt kmod-usb2 kmod-usb-ohci kmod-usb-uhci kmod-usb-serial kmod-usb-serial-option kmod-usb-serial-wwan kmod-usb-acm usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data luci-proto-3g
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Rsync over SSH without password
First install on both servers rsync and test that rsync works with password:
rsync -avz -e 'ssh -p SSHREMOTEPORT' /home/user/ [email protected]:/home/user/