On Laptops hardware problems..

SONY VIAO heating problem... http://www.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~zwerger/cip/Vaio/indexeng.htm

On SELinux :A good introduction from linuxsecurity.com

SELinux or Security Enabled Linux.
Just did attr -l
to find an attribute selinux.
Went on to find about SELinux to get "Hacks from Pax"


Article 1: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/120567/49/
Article 2: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/120622/49/
Article 3: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/120700
Article 4: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/120837/169/
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Tip:
To list inode of a file: ls -i OR stat |grep inode
To find file from an inode: find -inum

On VIM and Screen.

Vim configurations is a little detail:

http://www.linuxconfig.org/Vim_Tutorial

GNU Screen in Linux where multiple terminals can be bound to one screen. A handy tutorial is:

http://jmcpherson.org/screen.html


VIM Tricks:
1. To Fold Function: After ESC . Go into the function. press 'zfa{'

Configuring yum to add new repositories

http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/yum-config

Great Link for broadcom driver issues in fedora

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=239922

The above link did not work for PAE kernel. Support from broadcom did the trick...
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

Good link to grep usage..

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/15-practical-unix-grep-command-examples/

Checking Disk access time

1. using command:
hdparm -tT /dev/sda

sda being the device you want to check access speed of. The two speeds that appear as output are: 1. The speed of cache access. 2. The actual disk reads speed.


2. In case we need more description on device, fire:
 hdparm -I /dev/sda

Investigate hdparm --help for more options on disk eg. the drive geometry (-g)