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- Verbose startup and shutdown screens in Ubuntu
... . This can be accomplished with the command sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst . Then locate the line # defoptions=quiet splash ... word quiet . Then save and exit (Ctrl+O, Ctrl+X in nano ). Then to make the change take effect type sudo update-grub . This ...
Story - specialj - 12/26/2007 - 04:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Creating more entropy for a Linux kernel in a virtualized environment
... better. sudo apt-get install rng-tools nano /etc/default/rng-tools add the line: HRNGDEVICE=/dev/urandom ...
Story - specialj - 12/02/2007 - 03:59 - 2 comments - 0 attachments
- Installing Eclipse with RadRails and Subclipse under Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
... boost from moving from writing applications in nano to using a full IDE I found myself reverting to using nano. The reason was simply that NetBeans was putting too much load on my ...
Story - specialj - 01/23/2008 - 02:29 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Saving power on a laptop running Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
... off DRI in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf . sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf Locate: Section "Device" Add the line: ... I could always turn them on when needed). sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/custom Add the line: blacklist usbcore Add ...
Story - specialj - 10/21/2007 - 04:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Enabling the Internet Gateway Device protocol on a Debian based system running shorewall
... the configuration file /etc/init.d/upnpd : sudo nano /etc/init.d/upnpd I set the variables EXT_IFACE and INT_IFACE ... configuration file for the upnpd daemon: sudo nano /etc/upnpd.conf In accordance with the shorewall documentation I set ...
Story - specialj - 10/16/2007 - 17:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Configuring Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) following the Upgrade from 7.04 (Fesity Fawn)
... files) of the system. Enabling Bash Completion nano ~/.bashrc Uncomment the following lines by deleting the pound signs: ... Increase network security via sysctl.conf sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf Uncomment the following lines by deleting the pound ...
Story - specialj - 10/18/2007 - 01:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Packages in the new Ubuntu "partner" repository
... can be enabled by doing the following: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/partner.list add the line: deb ...
Story - specialj - 11/29/2007 - 00:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Install NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2 (Ruby on Rails version) on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
... set this in my ~/.bash profile as follows: nano ~/.bash_profile add the line export GEM_HOME=/var/lib/gems/1.8 ...
Story - specialj - 12/26/2007 - 06:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- DebAWeek: clusterssh
... clusterssh cssh -u > $HOME/.csshrc nano $HOME/.csshrc at the top of the file (above “# Configuration ...
Story - specialj - 11/29/2007 - 05:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments




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