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Disable a synaptics touchpad when a mouse is plugged in

Tuesday, 14 September 2010 21:29 neo73

Touchpad may be convenient when you don't have enough space to use a mouse. But it's more often a source of annoyance when you're typing something and you're losing focus each time your hand hits the touchpad. That's why I like to disable the touchpad when I'm using a mouse. Here is a way to automatically disable your touchpad using udev and synclient.

Xorg configuration: multi-head on a laptop with nvidia twinview

Thursday, 09 September 2010 00:05 neo73

Xorg configuration is a wide topic which is discussed in many places so this is just a reminder for myself . I'm using a laptop with a GeForce 8400M. It has a built-in 1440x900 LCD screen, a VGA output and a S-video/Composite TV output. I'm using it at work with an additionnal LCD screen and a US keyboard layout, while at home I don't use any extra screen except when watching films on TV. Here is my Xorg configuration with nvidia's TwinView.

Resize, rotate and rename your holiday photos

Friday, 16 October 2009 04:02 neo73

Yay, it's holiday time! playa, mountain, road trip... Everyone had a camera and everyone took so much pictures... and there are now hundreds of photos from several devices to resize, rotate and rename !

To make this an easier task, here are some tools to the rescue . Remember to backup your pictures before performing any change to prevent errors or data loss.

Convert your CD to mp3 with Sound Juicer

Saturday, 21 February 2009 09:47 neo73

Ripping a CD to mp3 isn't that easy for a debian newbie. This operation require a package that is not available from the official package repositories.

Play real media files on debian

Tuesday, 06 January 2009 22:03 neo73

You just have to install mplayer and a few codecs. The mplayer package has a script to install the needed codecs.

Install debian with PXE boot

Sunday, 30 November 2008 12:45 neo73

Installing a new OS may be difficult on machines with no CD/DVD (like Portégé 2000 from toshiba or Asus's EeePc). Hopefully those PC supports boot over network. It is called PXE (Preboot Execution Environment). To boot a computer with PXE you'll need a machine with a DHCP server and a TFTP server.

Here is a simple way to setup a PXE boot server.

Resize root partition without reboot

Wednesday, 08 October 2008 16:28 neo73

Today let's resize a root EXT3 partition on a LVM without rebooting!

As every sysadmin knows, partition size must be choosen carefully to avoid running into big problems if one of your partition runs out of space. Hopefully LVM allow you to manage disk space in a flexible way, allowing you to create partitions across several physical hard drives. Now let's see how to resize a root partition with no service interruption (!). In this example, my root partition uses the EXT3 format and is managed by LVM.