If 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 …
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I’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.
Continue reading Restart USB in Ubuntu Jaunty/KarmicRockBox is a free and open source firmware available for several different digital music players. Stable releases are available for the following music players: Apple: iPod 1g through 5.5g, iPod Mini and iPod Nano 1g Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio Cowon: iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5, M5L, M3 …
Continue reading Review: RockBoxIn this tutorial I’m going to show how to list the installed packages on a Debian based operating system, (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Sidux, CrunchBang, etc.) I got this gem of a command line one-liner from the Sidux website. This command is useful if you want to replicate a GNU/Linux installation from one computer to another. …
Continue reading How To List The Installed Packages on a Debian Based SystemEdit: Oct. 2, 2010 – I’ve written a new post that shows a bash one-liner command that will remove the old kernels from your system in one step. You can check it out here. If you’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for a while, then you probably have a number of Linux kernel updates that have …
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