Last night I wanted to watch a media file that I had on my ext4 Ubuntu Karmic disk partition. My media PC is running Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) which can’t read ext4. Even if it could, I haven’t yet bothered to set up network sharing from my Karmic installation. So I figured I would just use …
Continue reading Flash Drive FrustrationInstall video drivers If required/desired, install hardware specific video drivers (nVidia or ATI). Go to System?Administration?Hardware Drivers and enable the drivers for your video card. You will need to reboot to make this take affect.
Continue reading Ubuntu 9.10 Post Installation To-Do ListWhy install LAMP on your desktop computer? Why would I want to install and set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php) stack on Ubuntu 9.10? It’s useful if you want to set up a private web development environment. Perhaps you want to develop your own WordPress theme. If you are developing websites and experimenting, it’s nice …
Continue reading Install LAMP on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic KoalaThis past Thursday evening someone tipped off the Boy Genius Report that the Motorola Droid phone specs were published on the Motorola website. The pages were only up for about half an hour, but the Boy Genius Report managed to grab some screen captures of the spec pages. Here’s the rundown of the leaked specs.
Continue reading Motorola/Verizon Droid Specs LeakedI’ve already shown you how to view files with the cat command. In today’s post I’m going to show you how to use the GNU cat command for its originally intended purpose: for joining multiple files together. For this example we’ll need a couple of text files to start with. Paste the following text into …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Join Files With cat