A cool little Linux command that I found out about called “watch”. It runs a command repeatedly displaying its output and errors (the first screenfull). it will run the command every 2 seconds you can change this using the -n parameter to specify another interval. Again with thanks to the man pages and good old Read..
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01.08.10 - The watch command
29.06.10 - How to turn off CYGWIN MS-DOS style path warnings
Add a new Windows system variable with a variable name of “CYGWIN” and variable value of “nodosfilewarning”. That should disable the very annoying error, or you could fix it by using correct UNIX pathnames.
09.09.09 - KFC Guy found!
Me and Steve were looking thorugh my random pictures, lost and forgoten on my hard drive, and what we found will shock and amaze you. Behold!
02.12.08 - How to fix apt-get in Ubuntu 8.10
If somehow you have broken the APT package handling utility and you get this error: ed@niobe:~$ sudo apt-get install xchat E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to correct the problem. Then when you run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ you get this error: ed@niobe:~$ sudo dpkg –configure -a Processing triggers for libc6 Read..
07.10.08 - Ubuntu 8.10 Beta
Ubuntu 8.10 beta is out, if you can wait for the final release then download the 8.10 beta now! I’ll be updating mine. If you already have Ubuntu installed and you want to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04, press Alt+F2 and type in “update-manager -d”. Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release Read..
16.09.08 - How to set up USB BT Voyager 105 Notes
Set up and working on 6 Sep 2007 on Laptop ubuntu 7.04. With these files; eciadsl-usermode_0.12-1_i386.deb pppoe_3.5-4ubuntu1_i386.deb <- Not sure if it did need this one, but its all okay Config – sudo eciadsl-config-tk User: pete.maynard@btbroadband.com Password : Normal BT VPI: 0 VCI: 38 DNS: UK..British Telecom Modem: BT Voyager 105 Chipset: GS7470 VID1: 1690 Read..
05.03.08 - News Flash
Starting from this friday, I will make sure that there is new information on the site. If you would like to request something then feel free to post under here or in the forum. I will glady help you with what ever it may be. Java Javascript PHP ASP MySQL AJAX CSS Computer Hardware Microsoft Read..