Rememberall: a blog about finger knots.
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Ghosting LVM disks
When it comes to using Ghost (Symantec Ghost 11.5) to create an image of a device that dual-boots both Windows and Linux, there are some ‘tricks’ that you need to be aware of in order to create an image set that can be distributed to other devices, or at least restored to the original device.…
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Reinstalling grub after restoring a Ghost image
When restoring a Ghost image for a Linux device, it may be necessary to perform extra steps in order to get the system to boot. This is especially relevant if the image has been restored to a different physical device to that where the image was created from. One way to enable the system to…
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Compiling gcc
So, it turns out that compiling C applications requires a little bit of know-how. Here are some pointers to help young players. To get some compiler settings, give this a whirl: This error is the compiler complaining that it can’t find the header file mysql.h. After installing the mysql-devel package, and a quick search for…
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Compiling Paho binaries
The Eclipse Paho C Client library enables applications to connect to an MQTT broker to publish messages, and to subscribe to topics and receive published messages. The snippet below shows an example of how to compile the binaries from source. Making use of the library requires additional effort and is a topic for another discussion.