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Fix errors when compiling Linux Kernel 4.12 with GCC 8

Error: In file included from arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c:17: ./include/linux/syscalls.h:196:18: Fehler: »sys_mips_mmap« Alias zwischen unverträglichen Funktionstypen »long int(long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, off_t)« {alias »long int(long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long int)«} und »long int(long int, long int,

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Gentoo Linux working on an SGI Octane – with Xorg and Audio!

UPDATE: gentoo/octane is released. CLICK HERE! Gentoo Linux on an SGI Octane R12000 with working hardware accelerated graphics driver, audio, and even Software RAID 😉 I should be the only person on the planet running this system right now. If you want a copy of the system or would like to know how it’s done,

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Installing Brother DCP Scanner Drivers in Ubuntu

Start a Terminal using CTRL+ALT+T. Install some depencencies and frontend scanner tools using sudo apt-get install xsane sane-utils simple-scan lib32stdc++6 Now download the drivers. In case brother loses them, I mirrored them here. Alternatively use the wget commands down below. wget http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006646/brscan4-0.4.4-4.i386.deb -O brscan4-0.4.4-4.i386.debwget http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006651/brscan-skey-0.2.4-1.i386.deb -O brscan-skey-0.2.4-1.i386.debwget http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006654/brother-udev-rule-type1-1.0.2-0.all.deb -O brother-udev-rule-type1-1.0.2-0.all.deb Now install the drivers you just

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Asus ZenBook 13 (UX331UN) with Ubuntu: Battery drain while in suspend

When i got my shiny new ZenBook 13 UX331UN in July, i immediately wiped it and installed Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver). But I soon realized something was wrong with suspend: The laptop would go to sleep and over night the battery would either almost (10-ish percent) or completely drain, leaving the laptop completely powered off.

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Proxmox: “ perl: warning: Setting locale failed.“

If you run Proxmox and run into perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = „en_US.utf8“ are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale („C“). here’s your solution: export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 locale-gen

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Fix for „Internal Server Error“ on Scheduled Tasks in Spacewalk 2.6 / 2.7 / 2.8

Add this to /etc/rhn/rhn.conf: hibernate.enable_lazy_load_no_trans=true Then restart spacewalk services like so: systemctl stop tomcat systemctl stop taskomatic systemctl stop rhn-search systemctl start rhn-search systemctl start taskomatic systemctl start tomcat spacewalk-service restart

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Spacewalk Client for Ubuntu 18.04 / bionic

You have to roll your own: for shizzle in \ bionic/apt-spacewalk \ bionic/python-ethtool \ bionic/rhn-client-tools \ bionic/rhnlib \ bionic/rhnsd \ ; do cd $shizzle && debuild -uc -us ; \ cd ../../ done I uploaded some binary packages (.deb) which work for me ™: spacewalk-client-bionic.zip (This was originally uploaded for https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2018-May/msg00009.html ) EDIT: If you are

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Exchange MoveRequest – REALLY FAST, ignore „stalled due to disk latency“

If you want to ignore Exchange stalling on your moverequest slow source/destination servers: Get-MailboxDatabase „ex2013-db01“ | Get-Mailbox | select -first 5 | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase ex2016-db01 -BatchName gna -Priority Highest Monitor with: get-moverequest | get-moverequeststatistics When they’re all Completed, cleanup get-moverequest | remove-moverequest Then repeat from step 1.  

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