bash completion

1) install the package bash_completion and it will unleash the full power of bash completion. Can check out in
$ apt-get install xserver TAB TAB and see.

2) and its time to switch to lighter terminals
try using mrxvt and see the small signature of the process

3) check out package conky for a light weight process/ram/swam/harddisk viewer

increase loop mount devices in debian (lenny)

I use debian(flavour of linux www.debian.org). By default we can loopmount only 8 iso images. but there is a very easy way to increase it (I think max we can increase upto 256 by default). First there is no /etc/modules.conf in debian now. But all the files are split and placed inside /etc/modprobe.d . So what u have to do is simply this:
*be sure to umount any loop images u have on ur machine

$ ls /dev/loop* (will give u an idea of max mountable loop devices on ur m/c)
$ cd /etc/modprobe.d
$ cat"modprobe loop max_loop=24" > local-loop (use ur fav text editor, 24 = needed loopmount points)
$ repmode loop
$ modprobe loop
$ ls /dev/loop* (shd show an increase upto loop23 (bcoz u have chosed 24. it starts frm 0)
or u just restart the system after creating the file local-loop
*inspired from http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/

recently bought dell inspiron 1525

So here is my first entry in lieu of todays fashion of blogging. As the title suggests i have dell. a gud machine to work on. And i installed debian (lenny) on it. sound, webcam, bluetooth is working. Details of setup and specs in next entry :)