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Use lspci tells me my VGA Memory Usage

“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.” – Kurt Cobain Sitting here playing around with some cli I wanted to know how much memory my VGA card was using so to find out I did the […]

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Raspbian Wheezy Squid Proxy

“I am learning all the time.  The tombstone will be my diploma.”  ~Eartha Kitt Hello Friends, I am back again with an update on my most recent Raspberry Pi (Rasp~ Pi) minimal image; This time around I have added a Squid Proxy Server to the mix. Like that of my previous post I am still running on top of […]

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mount windows share using cifs

Once again I am tinkering with my Raspberry Pi doing things.  Now I want to mount my windows share remotely to move files around, also extend my storage remotely. As always I share how to do this with some simple steps. To mount a remote Windows share In Debian Squeeze you need to make sure that […]

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Raspbian Wheezy armhf Rasp~ Pi minimal image

Hi friends, Hi to myself in the future. Here is a updated Raspberry Pi minimal image. This one is compiled with hard float support; hardware instead of software emulation. Include: A minimal Raspbian Wheezy installation (similar to a netinstall) Hard Float binaries: floating point operations are done in hardware instead of A disabled incremental updates, means […]

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My Raspberry Pi needs a Swap

About Swap: Linux divides its physical RAM (random access memory) into chucks of memory called pages. Swapping is the process whereby a page of memory is copied to the preconfigured space on the hard disk, called swap space, to free up that page of memory. The combined sizes of the physical memory and the swap space […]

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Boot Live Ubuntu CD/USB to Memory

I have been wanting to do this for the longest time. And for the first time I got it working with the simplest of ways. This is what I did, and what you can do. Place your CD or USB into computer and start booting it.  Press F6 and then put “toram” (no quotes) into the […]