Posts under ‘Administration at the CLI’

I recently received an e-mail from a friend that has started using Ubuntu. He is rather new when it comes to running a GNU/Linux desktop and has asked me several questions. One of the questions was basically what software do I use and recommend. This is a serious question that a lot of new users [...]

I recently purchased the final part to build myself a new AMD Phenom Quad-core PC system to run Mandriva desktop GNU/Linux. I have been getting the parts a piece at at time over the past 12 months. I may go into the specifications of the new PC in a later article. For now I want [...]

I am about to admit, in public, to doing something extremely boneheaded once. Why? I just finished reading Carla Schroder’s article at LinuxPlanet titled Linux Works Even When Your PC is Committing Suicide. This article reminded me of my past foible and I decided to share it with you to make a point.
I have been [...]

My inspiration for this article came from reading Akkana Peck’s Intro to Shell Programming: Writing a Simple Web Gallery at LinuxPlanet today.
Before I get into this I will state for the record I am not a text mode Luddite. I use a graphical user interface (GUI) every day. In fact I am using the fluxbox [...]

I wrote an article in 2006 about making backups with growisofs on DVD+RW media. That article is Using growisofs with DVD±RW Drives for Backups on our main web site. Yesterday, 2008 December 31, I created a new addendum that details using tar to create a file that then gets backed up using growisofs. If one [...]

I have used NFS[1] mounts in our SOHO for many years for personal and business storage of files that need to be accessed from more than one PC. The file systems in /mnt are symbolically liked to /home/user directories and called mounts here. This makes accessing them very easy from each user account on a [...]