Do you print pictures or keep all of them online? What about if you've written a lot of text on some obscure blog on the Intertubez. What if something happens and you can't retrieve it? Maybe this is just because I just started reading a post-apocalypsian book where an EMP …

Trying out osol-dev-134-x86.iso in vmware workstation. You can download it from here: (genunix.org doesn't work anymore - here is another place: http://okcosug.org/. Update 201308 this also broke. You can now use http://virtualboxes.org/images/opensolaris/) Host OS: Core i7 with Windows x64. 1 core and 1300MB …

This is how to create simple RRD graphs using one data source that can be 0 and above. It is not an "ever increasing" counter. It will look like this: 1. Create the rrd database I wrote this down in a .sh file so I can go back later and …

Not allowing root to log in By default sshd is running on SL6 and you can ssh in with 'root'. Probably a good idea to change this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config permitrootlogin no But first, create a user that can log in. useradd mart passwd mart Then you can change …

Here's a great CLI file browser for Linux. It also gives a preview of text files. It's called Ranger. Do check it out. Here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93025 This was also my introduction to 'git'. Quite easy :) git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/ranger.git …

Hey! This is used for me on my Linux workstation to get a notification if there is a new spotify release whenever I open a new terminal.. It would be applicable for other (probably also simple) pages that aren't updated frequently. Reason: http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify …

Time for another 'do-release-upgrade'! This took away dwm-tools and suckless-tools (amonger other stuff). This means that META+p does not work anymore. So you cannot start any apps. Just install them again with 'sudo apt-get install dwm' and you're good to go. Don't even need to restart anything. Found this …

In a moment of frustration/impatience I posted on 'Brocade Certified' that it was still 3 weeks until the results are posted. Good boss of training Joe Cannata replied that I could e-mail him and get the results before. I did, and I passed! Most excellent and kind of them …

See the post for how to install spotify on a Linux Client (RHEL 6 x64 in my case). This post is for how to upgrade. 2012-02-01: Updated, added --nodeps to the rpm upgrade. 2013-01-08: This has been confirmed to work with spotify-0.8.8, updated typo in symlink part. Why …

Time for some more Linux testing. The reason for this is because I think I will go ahead and try to study for the RHCSA - Red Hat Certified System Administrator. Work might send me to a course in December, probably wise to play around with it before this. So here …