Many software packages in Ubuntu come along with a package configuration file. These files are used to control various settings for their particular package. In most cases, there is no reason to keep these files around after you’ve removed a package from you system. They get removed from your system along with the software package …
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Many different Linux distributions will display their version information in one place or another in the GUI. If you need to pull this information quickly, it may just be easier to open a terminal window and find it from the command line.
Continue reading View Your Linux Distro Version From The Command LineAbout a month ago my brother in-law came to me with his wife’s “dead” Windows XP computer. The computer would not boot at all. After a successful POST, the system would just sit there, unable to find any bootable media. I was asked if I could recover their files for them. Outside of that, they …
Continue reading Switching My Sister In-law To LinuxI’ve recently been looking for a way to organize my digital photos by the date and time they were taken. Since I have more than one camera, it’s not as simple as just sorting through file names since the cameras name the files differently. I was going to write a script using Image Magick to …
Continue reading Rename and Rotate Digital Photos With jheadI’ve got a huge number of digital photos on my computer that need to be organized. What I would like to do is sort the pictures by the date they were taken. The first step to sorting the pictures is to know the date they were taken. As long as the clock is properly set …
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