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http://psykil.livejournal.com/324031.html
livejournal.com This is a short howto about updating the intel processor microcode with gentoo.

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http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml
cb.vu This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. This is a practical guide with concise explanations, however the reader is supposed to know what s/he is doing.

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HowFlow — On popular request: three ways to turn off the console beep.

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http://irssi.org/documentation/proxy
irssi.org You don't like Irssi? You shouldn't cause it has a great feature called Irssi Proxy

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HowFlow — We all know it: there are daily or weekly cron jobs to index the man pages or the whole filesystem and Gentoo users do an 'emerge --sync' almost daily, but those I/O-heavy tasks are slowing down the Linux computer, especially with the current I/O schedulers.

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http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-convert-chm-files-into-pdf-files-in-ubuntu.html
ubuntugeek.com How to convert Microsoft Compiled HTML Help files to PDF.

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http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/devices-power-management/pcie.php
lesswatts.org PCI Express (PCIe) Active State Power Management (ASPM)

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HowFlow — Recently I had problems with a bad ram module. This trick allows you to mark blocks as bad, so they are never used and you dont't have to deposit your memory in the trash, just because a few kb are faulty.

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HowFlow — Sometimes you encounter a system where someone deleted the kernel sources and for some reason forgot to set CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y. This little trick shows how to extract the configuration from a Linux kernel image.

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HowFlow — tar - a great utility to make a simply backup of your important data.

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