Fix apt-get “cannot copy extracted data for ‘…’ to ‘…’: unexpected end of file or stream”

I was doing an apt-get upgrade and got this error:

Preparing to replace liborc-0.4-0:armhf 1:0.4.16-2 (using…

Fix blank image preview with Quick Look in Mac OS X

If you have activated the text selection feature in Quick Look (pressing the space key) you may get a blank preview while viewing some images.

Mount a folder via sshfs in Ubuntu with permissions to other users

After installing sshfs in Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install sshfs

You can mount a folder located in a remote machine via SSH with a command like this:

Enable SSH server in a headless Raspberry Pi

Raspbian come by default with SSH server deactivated so if you have a headless Raspberry Pi you won’t be able to access it. The easy way to activate SSH server without even powering on the device is by editing one file in the system partition of the SD…

Split and join large files using cat, split and tar

I was going to store a CentOS DVD iso file into my external hard drive but the image was bigger than 4GB, the biggest file size in FAT32, so I had to split it.

$ cat CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso | split -b 2200m…