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 finally have a twitter account jmcd73. Not sure what it does. Just playin' really
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...
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...
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....
try yum grouplist To get a list of all groups Then maybe yum grouplist | grep -i dev To narrow it down. Then to install the group yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
Some one commented in a post once that I shouldn't use cpan shell to install Perl modules on a RPM managed system. So to get a round a recent missing XML::DOM module I did the following. Download and install cpan2rpm from http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/ rpm -Uvh...
The simple answer is yes! I have gone from a 32bit Redhat 3.1 Dell Poweredge 1850 environment to a newer Dell R710 Server running Redhat 5.6 and then virtualized onto VMWare when It suffered and array failure. Going 64bit is good because the 4GB memory limit is...