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In ~/.profile :     if [ ${SHLVL} -eq 1 ]; then       ((SHLVL+=1)); export SHLVL       exec screen -R -e "^Ee" ${SHELL} -l    fi

If you feel that your Att U-verse or other ISP is painfully slow: manually change your DNS settings. Go to /etc/resolv.conf or make '/etc/resolv.conf.head' file, which will apply any changes to the top of the resolv.conf file. (a tail file is also possible).

Linux gaming news, reviews, capture and whatever else we come up with.

Customer Linux computer and tablet builds.

The Linux Diigo group might have already seen this, but if they haven't it's a good 'repository' of useful articles.

Pandoc is a program for converting between various markup formats. Input formats include markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX; output formats include HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, S5, DocBook, groff man, reStructuredText, markdown, and RTF. Many extensions to standard markdown syntax are provided, including inline LaTeX math, tables, definition lists, superscripts and subscripts, smart quotes and dashes, and footnotes Pandoc is in the MacPorts, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch, NetBSD, and FreeBSD ports repositories. Note that the version of pandoc in these repositories may not be the most recent. There is also a Windows installer.

The disk's ITR rating and internal cache size can be critical when tuning maxcontig (maximum contiguous I/O size). Note: maxphys and maxcontig must be tuned at the same time. The unit of measurement for maxphys is bytes; maxcontig is in blocks. maxcontig can be changed via the mkfs, newfs or tunefs commands.

"Mount Your iDisk on a Linux Host These instructions apply to recent distros / versions of Ubuntu, but should work on any *nix system that has davfs support. "

These notes are intended to help users and system administrators maximize TCP/IP performance on their computer systems. They summarize all of the end-system (computer system) network tuning issues including a tutorial on TCP tuning, easy configuration checks for non-experts, and a repository of operating system specific instructions for getting the best possible network performance on these platforms