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Linux quicktip – find and replace from the command line using sed

17. January 2007

If you’ve ever had to modify files on your Linux system and simply change a word or two, there’s a fast and simple way to do this using sed. Say you want to change your sources.list file to go from Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) to 6.10 (Edgy). You can do this with a one line command [...]

Quicktip – Right click and open in a terminal for Ubuntu

11. January 2007

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Ever wanted to right click on or in a folder and open that location in a terminal?Â Well you’ve had the ability all along, you just didn’t know it! Open yourself a terminal session (Applications -> Accessories-> Terminal) and type: sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal You may have to restart Gnome, but once you do you [...]

Quicktip – How to remove your /tmp folder contents when you shut down your linux box

9. January 2007

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If you’ve never looked in your /tmp directory, you may want to take a gander.Â Sometimes it can become quite full and take up precious disk space. If you’d like to remove all this stuff every time you shut down your box, you’ll have to do a little editing. First, open up a CLI (Applications [...]

Quicktip – disable your time and date from being reset to UTC in Ubuntu

5. January 2007

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I recently had a friend using Ubuntu who’s time/date was constantly being set back to UTC, much to her frustration. Here’s how to change this behavior. First, we’re going to modify (and make a backup of) your rcS file in the /etc/default directory. sudo cp /etc/default/rcS /etc/default/rcS.bak gksudo gedit /etc/default/rcS Look for the line that [...]

Quicktip – Forgot your grub password? Here’s how to change it.

4. January 2007

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Say you have a grub password to keep nefarious evil-doers from modifying your er… grubs. Then say a few months go by and you decide to modify some stuff but you’ve forgotten your password. What do you do? Well, you can try this. Share and Enjoy:

Quicktip – How to get Linux to prompt before removing a file in the CLI

2. January 2007

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I help out a bunch of folks with Ubuntu machines who are not exactly Linux savvy but who are learning quick. The most interesting and dangerous phase of this learning experience is when the start mucking about in the Command Line Interface (CLI). It’s exciting for them to suddenly feel powerful on their own computer. [...]

Ubuntu Quicktip – adding extra fonts to your Ubuntu install

19. December 2006

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If you’re in the mood for a few new fonts to play around with, here’s how you go about adding them to your system. First, you’ll have to make sure you have extra repositories added. Then, open up a terminal session (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and type the following: sudo apt-get install gsfonts-x11 msttcorefonts [...]

Quicktip – How to share folders in Ubuntu with ease

4. December 2006

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Got a folder in Ubuntu that you’d like to share? Now you can do it with ease. I’ve got a folder on my desktop called ‘Element’. This has nothing to do with sharing folders, but this particular folder contains pictures of my new Honda Element, which is a wonderful way to get around. So, I [...]

Ubuntu Quicktip – What packages come with Edgy?

27. November 2006

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Here’s a real quick one.Â Curious as to what ‘ships’ with Ubuntu’s Edgy (6.10)?Â Here’s the list. Share and Enjoy:

Quicktip – Tell Ubuntu to Fix File System Errors Automatically at Boot

15. November 2006

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Here’s a quick edit to one file that will tell Ubuntu to automatically fix any file system errors it encounters on boot. sudo gedit /etc/default/rcS Find the line that says ‘FSCKFIX=no‘ and change the no to a yes. Save your file and the next time you reboot this will be in effect. Technorati Tags: ubuntu, [...]

Quicktip – how to hide your Grub menu on boot

14. November 2006

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If you’ve got a machine that boots via grub and you’d like to hide the menu when it’s booting up there’s a simple little edit you can do to accomplish this. Share and Enjoy:

Quicktips – Making life easier in the shell – aliases for Bash

6. November 2006

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If you find yourself working in the shell a lot and you’re on Ubuntu using the default Bash shell, or any other distro using Bash, then you’ll probably want to set up some aliases to make your work flow a lot smoother. The first thing I do when I set up a new machine that [...]

Howto Fix – IE7 Installs but won’t run and how to import bookmarks.

6. November 2006

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When I installed Internet Explorer 7 on my home computer, I ran into an issue where the browser will start but not display any webpages. In fact, it would start up and do nothing, including allowing me to quit out gracefully. This happened after my critical update (i.e. IE7) was downloaded and installed. Here’s one [...]

Quicktips – Linux, your Partitions and You

3. November 2006

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Here’s a few quick ways to determine just what is chewing up all of your disk space. Share and Enjoy:

Quicktips – Saving man pages as text documents.

30. October 2006

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We’ve all agreed that Man pages are a wonderful utility and probably the best thing invented since air-sickness pills. Now wouldn’t it be nice if you could save the output from a man command into a handy text document? Then you could look at it with cat, less, more, vi, gedit, open office, word and [...]

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Linux quicktip – find and replace from the command line using sed

Quicktip – Right click and open in a terminal for Ubuntu

Quicktip – How to remove your /tmp folder contents when you shut down your linux box

Quicktip – disable your time and date from being reset to UTC in Ubuntu

Quicktip – Forgot your grub password? Here’s how to change it.

Quicktip – How to get Linux to prompt before removing a file in the CLI

Ubuntu Quicktip – adding extra fonts to your Ubuntu install

Quicktip – How to share folders in Ubuntu with ease

Ubuntu Quicktip – What packages come with Edgy?

Quicktip – Tell Ubuntu to Fix File System Errors Automatically at Boot

Quicktip – how to hide your Grub menu on boot

Quicktips – Making life easier in the shell – aliases for Bash

Howto Fix – IE7 Installs but won’t run and how to import bookmarks.

Quicktips – Linux, your Partitions and You

Quicktips – Saving man pages as text documents.

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