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Removing the ‘quiet splash’ options from the Ubuntu 10.10 kernel boot command line
Remember the old grub? When you could just go into /boot/grub/menu.lst (on Debianesque OS's) or /boot/grub/grub.conf (on Redhatian OS's) and edit & save the file raw. Those days are gone the new grub version 1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3 on Ubuntu 10.10 is now fully...
uuencode is in sharutils
Problem: Just transferring data from RH ES 3.0 to RH ES 5.6 and while testing a cron script it failed complaining about missing uuencode The fix: yum install sharutils
Playing around with WordPress Twitter Tools
I finally have a twitter account jmcd73. Not sure what it does. Just playin' really
Linux `at’ command – Part II
I am looking at the Linux at command again. I used to think that you couldn't create commands with arguments and feed them to at without using at -f filewithcommandsinit but I have discovered it's quite easy using STDIN e.g. # to add a new command to run 1 minute from...
Quick, Dirty and Insecure Mysql Access via Apache Web Server
I am mucking around with creating a mysql web application When trying out all sorts of queries it's sometimes nice to have them output to HTML for viewing in a web browser This file (named myscript.sh) shown below goes in your cgi-bin or other directory which has a...
LXDE Desktop for Ubuntu
If you miss simple and fast. If XFCE isn't your bag. If you just want a simple UI without the massive over head of KDE or GNOME. Give LXDE Desktop for Ubuntu a go. sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop I'm currently enjoying it because it makes my P4 seem snappier....