Hey! Recently found out that there are some quite awesome shortcuts available that I've missed - extremely useful if you use the bash shell in *Nix. To see which one you are using you can type 'chsh' in a terminal - this will tell you if you are using /bin/bash. Go …

Firefox download links: Windows http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%204.0.exe Linux http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-4.0.tar.bz2 Mac http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases …

Goal: Be able to exit DWM and get back to the GDM - gnome login manager. To be able to hit MODKEY+SHIFT+Q, exit dwm and get me back to the login manager. Where I can chose another user or window manager. Or if I make a change in dwm …

Have been playing around with a new window manager (new as in for me, I've only used fluxbox, kde and gnome before) called DWM - see more information on www.suckless.org. I'm running it on a T400 with RHEL6 (which uses gnome login manager - gde). Basically if you want to …

You may have seen in my previous post about EyeOS that I tried many things to get time in sync on the virtual OS. It was drifting lots of time and after a few hours it was an hour behind. Google tells me this is quite common but I …

See my previous post for how to install it. A couple of days later and the time is still in synch. When I logged on there was a pop-up saying there were some updates. Put in root password and you get to see which are updates, the ones with a …

Test with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Download: Sign up for an evaulation on https://access.redhat.com/downloads/ rhel-server-5.6-x86_64-disc1.iso VMWare Workstation does find this in "easy install". Not doing that this time. 20GBdisk (default) and 1552MB RAM (default 1024MB) install in either graphical or text mode, going …

PuTTY is a terminal client, it does telnet, raw, serial, ssh, rlogin. I've only ever used telnet, raw, serial and ssh. The normal client can be downloaded from http://www.putty.nl But, maybe you want to make PuTTY prettier? Like this?: putty pretty Well, there are a couple of …

How small VM can you make if you are only going to use it to run Irssi in a screen? OS: Ubuntu 10.10 x64 Virtual Kernel Hypervisor: VMWare Workstation Disk - no logs - 1.10GB is what my previous took, with samba, so probably less but 1.1 should be …

Figured I would give this a shot and see how this is done in Linux. Overview 1x Ubuntu 10.10 VM in VMWare Workstation. Installed with virtual kernel. 1x Windows 7 VM. All updates. Not going to go through the installations in this post, just the domain/LDAP part. See …