Posts Tagged ‘linux’
Watch & Win with Linux Journal
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life
Like Linux Journal but are too cheap to buy your own subscription? Or just like freebies? Then now’s your chance to get a free subscription. Linux Journal is holding a contest this week. You simply have to watch their Tech Tip Videos, collect the secret letters. You can find full details on their site. I’ve […]
Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10
Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Software
Last night I upgraded my home PC from Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. On the one hand, the upgrade went better than any other upgrade ever has. On the other, I ran into some major problems. Good The actual upgrade process completed without errors. The computer was successfully upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10 without any manual […]
Tags: KDE, Kubuntu, linux, Upgrade
Dapper to Hardy in 23 painful hours
Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers
I I finally set about upgrading my home server1 from Dapper to Hardy yesterday. I had been hoping for a less traumatic experience then upgrading my desktop computer from Dapper to Gusty2. Unfortunately I once again ran into problems. First off, it’s been nearly a week since Hardy was officially released but when I tried […]
Tags: Dapper, hardy, linux, sysadmin, ubuntu, Upgrade
Linux CLI Tip
Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Quickie, Software
Sometimes when you’re staring the bash prompt, you want to be able to see if a specific program is currently running. There are a couple of ways to do this; generally I run: ps –ef | grep ProgramName However I once saw a tip for doing something similar with top but I lost the link […]
Too Much Command Line
Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Quickie
You know you’ve been spending too much time on the cli when you keep hitting tab in Notepad and wonder why the autocompletion isn’t kicking in.
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