I write this post mainly as a reminder, but it might be also usefull for some people. Requirements : openssh client
Here is the apt-get command to install a basic lamp environment on ubuntu hardy 8.04 with some “quick start help” commands.
Yesterday, my boss asked me if I could install ubuntu gutsy on his old unika laptop. Almost everything went fine, but the wifi. Even the kill switch wasn’t working and, typing in a terminal: iwconfig eth1 always outputs “radio: off”. I had also in dmesg this error: ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command So, the [...]
Phosphor is a nice screensaver (at least, I love it) that scrolls a text on the screen in a old school 80’s style. On Ubuntu 7.10, it comes with xscreensaver-data-extra from universe repository. I wrote a bash script to generate the text choosing a random fortunes from a folder ~/fortunes where I save the fortunes [...]
My laptop screen is sometimes not bright enough and I have reach the top of the brightness according to the brightness control that is on the keyboard. The gnome applet brightness control has never worked either. But today I’ve found an utility (which was on all my previous linux distrib, I guess) : xgamma. Now [...]
Finally, i did it only 3 days after it has been released I said switched and not upgraded, because I’ve done a fresh install. Incredibely fast ! About 1 hour to have my new system operational with (almost) all my apps/configs/tweaks. The boot is also really fast compare to feisty. ATM, the only tweak I [...]
Here’s a common problem : When you use gnome icon browser and don’t find the icon you want in the default pixmaps that the browser shows, you try to use the “browse” button and then you browse directories searching the icon you want. But even if you are sure there is icons in the directory [...]
Because it avoids to have 2 browser windows open, and because it allows to work off line. That are the good reasons for me to test posting on my blog using a local application. I choose drivel. I report later if I find it useful or not. I found another one (but last version from [...]
Screen is an application that allow to create as many as you want virtual terminals on one physical terminal. Very useful in remote mode (with ssh for example). If you want to have scrollbar ou pgup/pgdown working in screen embed windows, you need to edit (or create a screen configuration file in your home directory. [...]
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