Linux Bash Scripting: Force Screen if not Cron Task
If you have a long running script that is designed to run as cron but may be run manually from the terminal then you may want to enforce screen so that the process can’t be aborted by the SSH terminal...
View ArticleSimple Linux Backup with Backup2L
If you have incremental backup requirements but would rather avoid something heavy and perhaps over featured and complex such as Bacula then Backup2L could be just the thing. Written in BASH, it...
View ArticleHow to get Compiz working with Linux Mint 13 (Maya) and MATE
With the Gnome world moving on to Gnome Shell and Unity some of us are finding frustrating the lack of ability to tweak and configure afforded to us by Gnome 2. MATE has gone a long way to ensuring...
View ArticleMate: Make Keyboard Calculator Button Work Again, and gedit etc.
One of the things that has not yet been fixed in mate is that the physical calculator button available on a lot of keyboards is mapped to “gcalctool” still but mate calls this “mate-calc” A quick and...
View ArticleTransfer Server Permissions
So sometimes you might have a restored backup without the correct permissions (whether that be because the backup didn’t store the permissions, the file system refused to take them, or you simply...
View ArticleRsync For Beginners
What is Rsync in general ? Rsync works like the rcp command in linux. It is used to copy files across machines. It uses efficient checksum algorithm that looks for modified files by time and size. It...
View ArticleTip: Have Git Branch Displayed in Bash Prompt
This is a very small tip, but one that can really save accidents in the long term. To display the current branch in git simply add the following to your .bashrc in your home directory : This is based...
View ArticleWget For Beginners
What is Wget in general ? Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of file from the web. The user doesn’t need to login system every time Wget can download the entire web page or mirroring...
View ArticleLinux Mint 14 / Ubuntu 12.10 Slow Wifi with Ath9k Drivers + Solution
I upgrade my laptop to the latest release of Linux Mint 14 MATE edition. Everything is working beautifully apart from the wireless which, whilst functional, was cripplingly slow. After a load of...
View ArticleLinux Sun Java repo
Recently I setup a machine with Linux Mint. One of the things that was I needed to install was an up to date version of Sun Java. However, for various reasons, this no longer appears in the official...
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