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Sixteen years of working notes — Linux and networking, Django and Laravel deployment, SwiftUI, AWS. Written down mostly so I can find them again.

How to Nov 19, 2008 1 min read

HOWTO Remove a File or Directory Recursively

# rm filename (removes a single file)# rm filename? (matches single character. e.g. filename1, filename2,filename3)# rm filename[1-5] (matches filename1 thru filename5)# rm filename* (removes…

General Nov 19, 2008 3 min read

Common UNIX Find Commands

One of the most useful utilities in the UNIX systems resources directory is the find command. System administrators use this powerful utility frequently. Here are a few common…

General Nov 14, 2008 1 min read

Create Live USB of any Linux OS

I found a very easy tool to make live usb linux OS..here it is..1. Download Ubootnetin.Download 32-bit (i386) Ubuntu/Debian .deb PackageDownload 64-bit (amd64) Ubuntu/Debian .deb PackageDownload…

Linux Nov 12, 2008 2 min read

Ubuntu 30-Mount Check Annoyance

If you’ve used Ubuntu Linux for longer than a month, you’ve no doubt realized that every 30 times you boot up you are forced to run a filesystem…

General Nov 12, 2008 2 min read

Testing your system for USB boot compatibility

The following tutorial will enable a user to check if a computer system can boot from a USB device and ultimately help determine if the computer can boot…

APPLICATIONS Nov 12, 2008 1 min read

DOSBOX RUN DOS APPLICATIONS AND GAMES IN UBUNTU LINUX

DOSBOX RUN DOS APPLICATIONS AND GAMES IN UBUNTU LINUXsudo apt-get install dosbox(Your can use Synaptic Package Manager and search for dosbox)After Installation you can make a folder xxxxx…

How to Nov 12, 2008 1 min read

Howto find Disk usage of Packages in ubuntu

The following command help you to find the disk space used by different packages in ubuntuopen a terminal window and run the commanddpkg-query --show…

General Nov 12, 2008 2 min read

How to Restore Your USB Key to it’s original state

After having tooled around with a USB Linux version using your multi partitioned flash pen drive, you might find it necessary to revert it back to a single…

General Nov 12, 2008 1 min read

Set the default root password

Setting the default root password: Some Live Linux distributions are created without a root password by default (the root account is inactive). This is particularly true with Debian…

Install Nov 11, 2008 1 min read

Quick USB Ubuntu 8.04.1 install from Windows (non Persistent)

Ubuntu 8.04 USB Live installation from Windows: This simple tutorial covers how to install, boot and then run Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron) from a USB flash drive. Upon…

Debian and Ubuntu Nov 4, 2008 1 min read

Exaile: Music Player for Linux.

Exaile is a wonderful music player for Linux written in written in Python. It incorporates Handling the library of music. To open tabs on the playlists and have…

Ubuntu Nov 4, 2008 3 min read

Commands that Should not be run in ubuntu

These are some of those command which is likely to damage your Ubuntu operating system! Please DO NOT use any of them with out proper knowledge , just read…