Archive for the “Linux” category
Linux Switcher
by Marshall on May 3, 2005
In the vein of the Mac Switcher commercials, the Linux Switcher!
MPD and Linux
by Marshall on April 13, 2005
Yesterday I went to the local police department to purchase a night parking pass for the next 3 months. This process usually involves filling out a small sheet of copy paper with your name, address, and car information, and paying (…)
Backing Up Files on Linux
by Marshall on April 6, 2005
I have been looking for a decent utility to create backups of important files off of my linux box. After a lot of reading, I decided to go with flexbackup. Basically what you do is edit a .conf file and (…)
Bash Completion
by Marshall on March 30, 2005
One of the coolest things that I ever found out when learning Unix/Linux was tab completion in bash. It made typing long path names easier and you didn’t need to know the exact path that you wanted to go to. (…)
Happy 1111111111
by Marshall on March 18, 2005
Unix Time just rolled over to 1111111111. Happy 2^31!!!
Upgrading to Gnome 2.10
by Marshall on March 14, 2005
I am currently following these directions to upgrade to Gnome 2.10. I had to add a few extra lines to /etc/portage/package.keywords to get it to start. Only 237 Packages to go!!
Unix Screen
by Marshall on March 9, 2005
A really nifty command in unix and linux environments is screen. You can execute screen, run a process, press CTRL+A+D to detach the screen, and the process that you ran while within screen will still be running. To reattach a (…)