I setup the new office printer here on my laptop this morning and I had all kinds of trouble getting it to work with the system-config-printer graphical utility that I usually love so much. As part of my troubleshooting I thought I’d try the web interface, which worked great! That gave me the idea [...]
I spent a little bit of time trying to find an answer to this today but I was unsuccessful. I’m hoping one of you will have the secret for me.
Situation:
I’ve configured my .ssh/config file with profile and port information for the many servers I connect to on a regular basis.
Problem:
One of the servers [...]
It has been some time since I’ve done a Vim Tip of the Week, but I came across something today that I thought I would share. This tip will allow you to use Vim, with all its syntax highlighting glory, as a pager (similar to less or more).
If you use cat or less or more [...]
Today, considering it is a holiday here in the US, I figured I’d take a day off from the tutorials and ask a question of you.
All of my servers run logwatch (which will make for a great tutorial coming up soon), and I pretty regularly see something like this in the daily output:
——————— Kernel Begin [...]
If you use a Linux laptop and have not heard of PowerTop you really need to keep reading! This is a fantastic tool for extending your battery life written and published by Intel. I use it constantly on long flights and my battery lasts long enough for a cross-country flight.
Installing Powertop
PowerTop is available in the [...]
I was tearing away this morning configuring something in the shell. My wife peaks over my shoulder and says “How do you do that?!” I have a nice laugh and there was born an idea for my next post. This post outlines
some basic shell shortcuts. note: these use the default [...]
I installed Fedora 8 on my macbook the other day just to tinker and see how the other side live and I wanted to make sure I got a few things written down concerning the installation. I had to dig & dig to get it to work, so here’s to hoping others will not [...]
Suppressing Login Messages
I do a lot of remote remote maintenance via ssh on my machines and one thing that I’ve long wondered about is the message outputted when you login. You know, the system information output plus the notice concerning the warranty, etc. Here is the output I’m referring to when connecting to my Sun [...]
I spent the day teaching a class on Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 and in doing so got in the habit of using some Redhat specific commands. After class when I got back on my Ubuntu laptop I attempted to restart a service using “service network restart”. Instead of complaining about the service command [...]
This vim tip of the week was submitted by Andrew. Many thanks. Do you have a vi/vim tip that you’d like to share with the world? Visit my contact page and send me your idea!
This vim tip relates to updating multiple windows or tabs within vim with a single command. If you ever edit multiple [...]
