[Howto] add menu entry in lxpanel (LXDE Desktop)

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every menu entry is a text file with the suffix “.desktop“ example.desktop [space_20] the menu entries are located in two different folders: for all users (global): /usr/share/applications (note: you need root-privileges to edit this folder) for local user (local): ~/.local/share/applications … Continued

[Howto] send a syslog message manually

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the following commands send a syslog-message to the syslog-daemon with the syslog-facility=auth and syslog-priority=info: #to localhost’s syslog-daemon logger -p auth.info <message> #to a remote syslog-daemon logger -h <IP> -P <Port> -p auth.info <message>

[Test] ZFS scrub speed

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System:  Intel Avoton 2558 4-core CPU, 32 GB DDR3 ECC RAM, 6 disk RAID-Z2 (WD30EZRX) Info:   Scrubbing-speed is not constant, it raises after some time. it begins with 29,7 MB/s after 4 hours the average scrubbing-speed is 131 MB/s after … Continued

[Backup] Firefox / Iceweasel 38.2.0

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Profile-Folder: ~/.mozilla/firefox/ main folder, where all profile-files are stored (note: all included files must be writable)   User preferences: prefs.js customized user preference settings   Bookmarks: places.sqlite bookmarks, downloaded files, visited websites /bookmarkbackups/… daily-rotating and compressed backup-files of places.sqlite (restoreable … Continued

Comparison/Benchmark: xz vs. bzip2

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xz-Version: 5.1.0alpha (liblzma) bzip2-Version: 1.0.6 uncompressed test-file: cd.iso (278,6 MB) OS: Linux 3.14.2-amd64 SMP Debian 3.14.15-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux Hardware: CPU: Intel core i3-4160 (2x 3,6 GHz physical cores, Hyperthreading = on) MoBo: SuperMicro X10-SAE RAM: 16 GB DDR3-1600 ECC HDD: … Continued