at least that's what I exeperienced ( Read more... )

My office mate had to setup a certain JAVA webserver on a Linux machine and I was tasked to help her XD she was a bit culture shocked at the all black console that she saw using a popular SSH client.

and to the commands too LOL

*warning geek mode*

we were talking about the weird command names like "more", "less", "touch" .. and the one said "there's ' ( Read more... )

last night I installed the AMD 64-bit Version of the latest Ubuntu release. I chose to try the 64 bit version to maximize my ACER 4530 laptop (running on AMD TURION 64 X2 Ultra).

I installed it in a different partition (good thing i had spare partitions). I decided to give it 8 Gigabytes for the file system (/) and I just reused the /home partition ( Read more... )

IT'S ALIVE!!!

after weeks of GOOGling, I manages to get the camera working thanks to these links:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-929887.html
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=3849059

after doing the modprobe thingy I added the options to the

/etc/modprobe.d/options

options uvcvideo quirks=2

my system is an ACER 4530 running on ( Read more... )

wow i learned something new today!

there's this nice program (since 1996 lol) called rsync that can be used to synchronize files. more of like a backup program thingy

the cute thing about it is that it has so MANY options with a very LONG man page (whew!)

of course it's console based and you can just schedule the command via the all-time favorite CRON

( Read more... )

Yey! There’s new release from Ubuntu! (http://www.ubuntu.com/) The press release was just last April 21 (http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.04-lts-desktop)

And guess what they finally put the direct install feature in the boot menu. AT LAST. I think before they had a separate (alternate CD) for that. But this time it’s included in the standard CD. ( Read more... )

waw I really learned A LOT this week. hmmm where do we start music
now i kind'a understand the musical mode used in neo-classical rock (like what malice mizer used to play). the mode is called "Harmonic minor" the only difference there is from the usual minor is one note, weird huh?
so let's say we have an A minor scale which goes al little ( Read more... )

editing crontable help!

everyone (who knows Linux/unix) can edit the crontable (of the current user) via the command

$ crontab -e
and a little VI type application runs where you can edit your scheduled applications. in reality, these are all stored in files /var/spool/cron/username (for red hat-like systems). issuinig the command

# cat /var/spool/ ( Read more... )