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Nyan Cat in your terminal

posted on July 26, 2012 in Internet, Linux with 0 Comments

Just for fun. Let Nyan Cat run around in your terminal. Bring up a terminal and run “telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu” Source: http://miku.acm.uiuc.edu/ | Nyan Cat

How can non root users mount and unmount in Linux

posted on July 24, 2012 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

File systems / partitions are normally managed by root and only root would be able to mount or un-mount. However, if you want everyone on your machine to have the same privilege for a specific mount point, this is how you can do that. Add “user” to the mount options for the desired mount point in your /etc/fstab file. In [...]

How to install GIMP 2.8 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

posted on July 23, 2012 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

The default GIMP package that comes with Ubuntu 12.04 is 2.6. However, if you’d rather have the latest version 2.8 here’s how you can get it. 1. Remove the existing GIMP package. sudo apt-get autoremove gimp gimp-plugin-registry 2. Add the unofficial GIMP 2.8 PPA sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp 3. Update your sources and install GIMP 2.8 [...]

How to restart autofs in Solaris

posted on May 25, 2012 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

Quick step to restart the autofs service on Solaris. I’m running Solaris 10. 1. Check the auto service status. # svcs | grep auto legacy_run Oct_24 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S72autoinstall online 17:31:10 svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default 2. Restart the autofs service # svcadm -v restart svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default Action restart set for svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default.

How to install Virtualbox on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

posted on May 24, 2012 in HowTo, Linux with 12 Comments

1. Download and install Oracle’s public key. danesh@python:~$ wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add – 2. Create a repo file for Virtualbox danesh@python:~$ sudo -s echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib” >> ~/virtualbox.list danesh@python:~$ sudo mv ~/virtualbox.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ 3. Install Virtualbox danesh@python:~$ sudo apt-get update danesh@python:~$ sudo apt-get install dkms danesh@python:~$ sudo apt-get install [...]

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