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Jun/09

Replace /dev/xxx With UUID

Filed Under Linux at 23rd June 2009 0:01 by

Overview My recent (re)build of my old Intel Pentium 4 system to run in my Linux system has a slight problem with jumping drive points e.g one minute my /home drive on /dev/sdb1 suddent goes to /dev/sda1 after a reboot … Continue reading →

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Jun/09

Linux Terminal Not Auto-completing

Filed Under Linux at 12th June 2009 20:51 by

in the terminal is one of the most useful features in command line. Both DOS and Linux support autocomplete with the key . This is when you type part of the command or file name and press tab to complete … Continue reading →

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May/09

Setting Default Linux Shell

Filed Under Linux at 1st May 2009 22:07 by

My new user I created did not have any shell when I logged in. To set up a shell you need to know where the shell resides with this command: $ which bash where bash is the shell name. Replace … Continue reading →

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Feb/09

Auto Login & Lock For Linux & Windows

Filed Under Linux, Security, Windows at 25th February 2009 0:01 by

Overview I had conceived an idea to automatically login and lock the screen. A Google later and I found that I wasn’t the only one. An advantage of this set up is it allows you to login and start up … Continue reading →

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Feb/09

GNU Screen In Linux

Filed Under Linux, Software at 23rd February 2009 0:01 by

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/09

MythTV Capture Card Requirements With Multiple Front Ends

Filed Under Linux at 22nd February 2009 0:01 by

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/09

Copying Files & Rsync On Linux

Filed Under Linux at 5th February 2009 9:08 by

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/09

bash: man: command not found

Filed Under Linux at 4th February 2009 19:39 by

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 →