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Dec/11Migration Plan From Ubuntu 10.04 LTS To 12.04 LTS
Overview I’m preparing myself to move from 10.04 to 12.04. With 12.04 as the next Long Term Release (LTS) coming in the next release I thought it was time to prepare for the inevitable move from old to new. Setup … Continue reading
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Nov/11Things To Install After Installing Ubuntu 11.10
A great article on what to install after Ubuntu 11.10 is installed. 10 things to do after installing Ubuntu 11.10
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Sep/11SpiderOak Mini Review
Overview I was looking for a replacement to Dropbox after the EULA / T&C changes and found SpiderOak to be a very attractive alternative. It’s a backup and folder sharing / sync software which runs on all 3 major platforms … Continue reading
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Aug/11Acer Aspire One D255E Mini Review
Overview Our Asus EEE PC 701 SSD failed when I tried to upgrade it from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04. I was in the middle of an install when it failed to copy a file and then there after it could … Continue reading
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Jul/11Linux – List Open Ports
Command to list all the ports that are open / listening for incoming traffic: $netstat -a | egrep ‘Proto|LISTEN’
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Dec/10fstab Options
A quick note on fstab mount options from How-To-Geek auto/noauto: Specify whether the partition should be automatically mounted on boot. You can block specific partitions from mounting at boot-up by using “noauto”. exec/noexec: Specifies whether the partition can execute binaries. … Continue reading
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Sep/10Kick A Linux User Who’s Logged In
In command line type in who or w will list all the users who are currently logged in. To log them off type in the following: pkill -KILL -u danny where danny is the username. If ‘danny’ was logged in … Continue reading
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Feb/10Separating User & Windows On Different Drives
Overview I wanted to have the Windows partition and the user partition on separate drives. I have done this in the past on a Linux computer and it was very painless. The advantage to this setup is that most of … Continue reading