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I just had the following experience: I sat down in front of my desktop computer which isn't connected to the internet at the moment. My HTC Desire Android based phone told me it needed a recharge so I plugged it in to my computer for a bit using it's USB cable. It...

I'm playing with upgrading a Ubuntu 9.04 installation and ran into the "An upgrade from 'jaunty' to 'lucid' is not supported with this tool." and I had no idea what version `lucid' was. To find the version of the currently running Linux box use lsb_release -a...

How to set your Ethernet card back to eth0 I have a Ubuntu 9.04 JEOS (Just Enough OS) Virtual Machine running under Virtualbox. I have upgraded my host machine several times, converted the VM from VMWare to Virtualbox, moved the VM from one disk to another, created a...

Symptoms: Go to twitter.com and try to browse to a user profile and you get an "Aw, Snap" page. Resolution: Using information at http://blog.randell.ph/2011/06/11/fix-for-aw-snap-while-loading-twitter-in-fedora-15-with-selinux-enforcing-enabled/ Do: Fix the current...

Put here for posterity. How to make sure standard error and std out go to the bit bucket. # crontab line 0 16 * * 1-5 /home/batch/getShipping/getShippingDetails.sh > /dev/null 2>&1