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Just did something stupid with my home system: Started an update from Ubuntu 10.10 to the development version of the new 11.04 using update-manager -d. Saw the `don't use this on a production system' warning and ignored it, and pulled the trigger on the update. Then I...

The default command on lubuntu-desktop for ALT-PrintScreen and PrintScreen dump the file in $HOME On my Fedora 20 LXDE install there are no preconfigured screen shot options. So the following needs to be added to the openbox config xml. Before you start install scrot...

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...

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

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...