Archive for the ‘linux’ Category
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
If you are using Debian/Ubuntu and looking for a tool which enables you to view live system statistics then you probably want to give saidar a whirl:
sudo apt-get install saidar
Saidar shows you real-time CPU, processes, load, memory, swap, network I/O, disk I/O, and file system information through a curses interface ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
To find the lines which occur in each of two files, ie if you have the following two files:
File1:
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
File2:
line4
line5
line6
line7
and want a command which will return:
line4
line5
Use:
grep -f File1 File2
Blogged with the Flock Browser
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Posting this from Flock, which, if you haven't heard, is a browser geared towards the 'social web'. It's got an integrated blog poster, to write and post stuff direct to your blog - I'm using it now funnily enough. It has sidebars for Facebook, Flickr and MySpace, as well as ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
This is a bug fix release which fixes an issue with the applet not shutting down cleanly when a user logs off. I've also cleaned up the source package to allow an Ubuntu package to be created - thanks to Mitsuya Shibata.
Download: TermLauncherApplet-0.0.3.tar.gz
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Although you can add swap through Settings->Control Panel->Memory, I wanted to add a swap file manually. There are a couple of reasons you might want to do this. Perhaps you want more than the maximum of 128Mb offered through the Control Panel or it may be the fact that when ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Like many, I wanted to increase the space available to me for my root partition on my n800. There are a lot of sites describing the process of putting the whole of root onto your memory card but I wanted to keep using the internal flash for most of the ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Why is it that whenever you release anything you immediately find something wrong with it? Anyway, click the link below to download version 0.0.2 of my TermLauncher Applet.
Download: TermLauncherApplet-0.0.2.tar.gz
Here's what's fixed in this version:
src/termlauncher-applet.py:
- Get current profiles from /apps/gnome-terminal/global/profile_list
- Sort profiles alphabetically
Basically I now grab the list of profiles ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
I like to have a GNOME-Terminal profile for each machine I connect to (and there's a few of them) which automatically connects me to that machine on launch. The standard application launcher on the Ubuntu (and many other distros) default panel only gives you the option of launching a ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Rebooted my desktop for the first time in a while (needed to change a light fitting so had to turn off the electric). When it came back up, GDM had reverted to the Circles GNOME theme as opposed to the usual Ubuntu Human. I've noticed before that, whilst shutting down, ...
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