I keep getting the exclamation mark in htop next to the uptime and always wondered why it’s there. According to this mailing list post it’s a little easter egg in UptimeMeter.c:
35 char daysbuf[15];
36 if (days > 100) {
37 sprintf(daysbuf, “%d days(!), “, days);
38 [...]
sudo can be used to give certain users access to commands that require root. This is handy when you’ve got lots of users that need to administer the system or software that resides within it. This also means you don’t have to distribute the . An example would be to allow a user to edit [...]
Being both a Linux and Xbox fan makes for an interesting time. One of the best features of the Xbox is its streaming from a PC on your LAN. There are various features that the Xbox provides for seamless media streaming (be it videos, music or pictures) but it’s not as straightforward as it may [...]
I’m a long time user, advocate and all-round fan of Linux. In particular, I’ve used Debian or variant distributions and have never had any major issues (well none that weren’t PEBKAC). I’ve been running Debian Sid on my Thinkpad X31 for around three years now, and out of curiosity I thought I’d try out Ubuntu [...]
I wanted to upgrade my work machine to Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10) from Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), but the update manager was not showing the distribution/release upgrade button. This is due to 8.04/Hardy being an Long Term Support (LTS) release, and 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) not. Therefore, you’ll first need to enable distribution upgrades in the [...]
This blog took nearly 7 thousand hits yesterday. At its peak, it took 1.8 thousand an hour. That’s a decent amount of traffic. This was all brought about when I submitted a link to reddit.com regarding a way to crash Google Chrome instantly. Coincidentally, I had spent an hour or so the night before testing [...]