There are some highly entertaining examples on the net of command line program output, but it’s great when you’re doing some system maintenance in Linux on your own machine and a gem unexpectedly crops up:
:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
[sudo] password:
* Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server dovecot
Warning: Last died with error (see error log for more information): [...]
Category Archives: Linux
No! Please don’t do it!
November 13, 2008 – 6:48 pm
Synaptics touchpad, SHMConfig, xorg.conf and Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10
November 7, 2008 – 8:55 am
Some significant changes have been happening to the X server over the past couple of releases of Ubuntu. One of the most noticeable alterations has been the removal of the xorg.conf file from the default Ubuntu install.
It is a great thing that X is now at the stage where it knows devices well enough to [...]
FirstClass. On 64 bit AMD64 Ubuntu.
October 25, 2008 – 1:32 pm
For my OU course in Web Applications Development, I have to use a piece of software called FirstClass, from OpenText. Thankfully the nice people at OpenText have packaged up a version for Debian and Ubuntu, version 8.315-2 (one major release behind Windows admittedly, but perfectly usable). If you’re using a 32 bit version the install [...]
Amarok, Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10, Bluetooth and Sony MBR-100 Audio Receiver
October 25, 2008 – 1:23 pm
As we all know Amarok is the best music player in the world, and it’s free. It’s only available on Linux at the moment but the devs are working hard to port it to Windows. Anyway I digress. I wanted to explain how I got Amarok playing on my laptop, accessing my music collection on [...]
RT73 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
October 22, 2008 – 10:41 pm
If you’ve used the Ralink RT73 chipset under Ubuntu for any length of time, you’ll know that the default drivers aren’t yet perfect (some supporting evidence). Some may have had more success, but in my experience they drop out regularly and transfer rates are pretty mediocre. The modules used are the rt2×00usb and rt73usb. These [...]