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Feb/09GNU Screen In Linux
Overview Screen is a handy terminal application which runs on top of Linux terminal itself. This means allows you to create sessions with in a terminal and each session are self contained. A feature that I use of screen is … Continue reading
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Feb/09MythTV Capture Card Requirements With Multiple Front Ends
I have start to live the dream of time shifting commercial skipping T.V programs and it’s all done in MythTV. Today I have discovered why someone mentioned they had 4 T.V capture cards in their system was not so ridiculous … Continue reading
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Feb/09XMLTV Error 6400 And XMLTV Error 2304
My MythTV had a problem with the getting the T.V schedule (guide) and all the channels just displayed “No Data”. I ran mythfilldatabase manually and it reported Error 6400. I shutdown Myth Backend and started it back up and ran … Continue reading
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Feb/09Automatic WordPress Upgrade To 2.7.1
My blog is running 2.7.1 but this was a special upgrade for me. I used the automatic button instead of doing it manually. I had never trusted the automatic process as I have heard horror stories of broken WordPress websites. … Continue reading
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Feb/09Extending Zip Ties To Make Them Longer
I was doing some cable management recently and found that the length of one zip tie was not long enough to go around so I thought I’d try and daisy chain them together. What you know it can be done. … Continue reading
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Feb/09GNC #449 Quick Email
Yay another email read out by Todd at 50minutes 43 seconds. Geek News Central website Podcast #449
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Feb/09Copying Files & Rsync On Linux
I ofund this article from IBM which says you can copy files and preserve their file permissions using the -p argument e.g cp -p log.txt / This is really handy when used with the recursive -r argument which will keep … Continue reading
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Feb/09bash: man: command not found
Just a quick update to my experience with a VPS server. The Ubuntu install on CheapVPS is so stripped down it doesn’t even include one of the most basic commands: man. man display man pages which are Linux manuals for … Continue reading