Update: I’ve written a simpler procedure that will uninstall LAMP with a single command. I’m leaving this post here for historical reasons, but the process is much faster if you follow my newer post. The most popular post on this blog is How to Install LAMP on Ubuntu 9.10. On that post, I’ve had a …
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I spent a great deal of time this weekend working on updates to my WordPress theme. One of the more noticeable changes is the addition of support for threaded comments. The function has been available in WordPress since version 2.7, but I didn’t get around to modifying my theme until now. Hopefully, this will make …
Continue reading Tux Tweaks – Now With Threaded CommentsYou may have an occasion that you want to know the number of files in a directory. There are a couple of simple ways to do this. The first way is to list the files with ls and count them with wc. No, wc doesn’t stand for the place you go to relieve yourself; in …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Count FilesIf you’re a heavy user of the GNU/Linux command line, then you’re already familiar with the man command. If you’re a newbie, the man command (short for manual, as in RTFM) pulls up the online documentation for terminal commands and outputs it to the same terminal. Perhaps you wish you could have some of these …
Continue reading How To Create PDF’s Of GNU/Linux ManpagesI’ve written a few posts about restarting USB service in Ubuntu before. This is an update to that process for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). As of Ubuntu Jaunty, the usb kernel module is called usb_storage.
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