linux Archives | Ros' Rants https://rosrants.com/tag/linux/ I blog, therefore I am. Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:20:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://rosrants.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-profile-560x560-1-32x32.png linux Archives | Ros' Rants https://rosrants.com/tag/linux/ 32 32 74311559 Intro to cron / crontab https://rosrants.com/intro-cron-crontab/ https://rosrants.com/intro-cron-crontab/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:50:02 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=396 I have a network share I am hosting on a linux NAS in my house. There are a couple of annoyances with Apple lusers leaving .DS_Store files all over the network share, and messed up permissions on the files people upload to the share. Solution? Learnt about cron and set up a couple of jobs…

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]]> https://rosrants.com/intro-cron-crontab/feed/ 2 396 Want to know what dd is doing? https://rosrants.com/want-to-know-what-dd-is-doing/ Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:12:00 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=11 From another terminal type kill -USR1 $pid, where pid=`pidof dd`. This causes dd to spit out data speeds and amounts transferred so far. you might wrap it up in something like:   pid=`pidof dd`  while [[ -d /proc/$pid ]];  do kill -USR1 $pid && sleep 5;  done Apparently pidof is deprecated or something?? If you…

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]]> 11 Bricked my Galaxy Note (Soft Brick Phew!) https://rosrants.com/bricked-my-galaxy-note-soft-brick-phew/ Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:33:00 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=13 Very intense day today as I luckily only soft bricked my GT-N7000. Got stuck in bootloop after an unsuccessful rom upgrade when returning to nandroid backup. And no i didn’t use stupid stock ICS kernel. Reflashed stock rom with Odin and it decided to fail :-O, redid it and felt very lucky when it worked!…

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]]> 13 Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ V2 (RND4000) https://rosrants.com/netgear-readynas-nv-v2-rnd4000/ https://rosrants.com/netgear-readynas-nv-v2-rnd4000/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:13:00 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=18 Just bought one of these for €200. It’s a compromise on price performance. I wanted 1 gigabit read/write, but would have to shell out a lot more to approach these figures. The unit looks good. As you may have read in other reviews the drive bays are way too accessible and easy to take out.…

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]]> 19 Just got a Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000 !! https://rosrants.com/just-got-a-samsung-galaxy-note-gt-n7000/ https://rosrants.com/just-got-a-samsung-galaxy-note-gt-n7000/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 13:16:00 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=24 Just received this by courier! Fantastic, it’s huge! Right hand side is level with a UK / IRL size electricity plug.<p>right hand side </p>

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]]> 32 “C Programming in Linux” by David Haskins. An alternative to “The C Programming Language” by Kernighan and Ritchie https://rosrants.com/alternative-to-the-c-programming-language-by-kernighan-and-ritchie/ Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:41:00 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=47 I found this great book for learning C. Lesson 1 is the usual “hello world” console app, but literally the next example dives into using it as a CGI script. It teaches all the usual C console output stuff, but concentrates on web programming with C and apache web server. This is great, as the…

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]]> 47 Put Archlinux on my eee pc 901 https://rosrants.com/put-archlinux-on-my-eee-pc-901/ Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:21:00 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=52 I decided to wipe eeebuntu 8.04 from my eee pc 901. I have put on archlinux which turns out to be great! you have a lot more control of ur installation with archie, and i’ve gone for a very lightweight approach to suit my netbook. No desktop environment, just using openbox window manager, and carefully…

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]]> 52 Ubuntu 10 (Lucid Lynx) Linux Post-Install Set Up Tips https://rosrants.com/ubuntu-10-lucid-lynx-linux-post-install-set-up-tips-2/ https://rosrants.com/ubuntu-10-lucid-lynx-linux-post-install-set-up-tips-2/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:36:00 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=60 1) don’t use 64-bit unless you have more than 3.5 GB of RAM installed. more trouble than it’sworth. 2) to change minimize, maximize, close window buttons from left side to right side of top of window: run gconf-editor and go to /apps/metacity/general/button_layoutchange from “close,minimize:” to “menu:minimize,maximize,close” 3) get the win key working: run gconf-editor and…

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