Linux Power Management

Been trying to get my latest Linux Laptop to behave nicely while on battery. It’s an Elementary Luna build. I came to the conclusion that there’s not much that can be done; it’s one of those things we leave to the OS authors, in this case Canonical.

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Cairo Clock

I fancied a desktop clock for my elementary builds. I found cairo-clock, which has a bunch of default themes and a bunch of add-ons also. It can be obtained via the package managers; I found this, as the package documentation. 

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Docker

About Docker, looks awesome. Easy to create bootable, runnable images, easy to deploy because the global hub site is a crucial part of the proposition. The free usage of the hub, encourages the publication and sharing of images which are then imported over the internet. Originally written the summer of 2015, and revised in the…

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Gdrive & Linux

My original article in 2015 pointed at the fanclub’s grive, this ceased to work on my elementary build and so with some googling I found an alternative. NB I moved from elementary to ubuntu in 2019. I revisited this in 2023, while using Ubuntu 22. For U22 this is now integrated and accessed via online…

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Installing Elementary OS using a USB

I am planning to install a linux on my last laptop, It is an HP Probook and has no CD/DVD. I need to choose a Linux, this, elementry os looks good and is derived from Ubuntu. I’ll need to create a bootable USB stick, this page might help. Unetbootin is also poined to on the…

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Fedora 20

I need another Red Hat look alike and chose Fedora. My target is Virtual Box on Windows 8.1. So remember, Install from Live CD, reboot yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel yum update reboot install guest additions, if that fails set & export KERN_DIR, for Fedora it’ll be in…

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Log Rotate and *NIX

This has changed since my days at Pyramid. There has been quite a lot of thinking and engineering about dealing with daemon logs. The places to look are via the syslogd, newsyslog project, you can see a the newsyslog man pages and using the keyword “rotate log”. The idea is that logs are rotated, although…

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Ubuntu 13.10

I am installing this on the Mac under Virtual Box. This snip is about Ubuntu. The first problem is that it comes with quite a bit of crap installed and the Unity search is over zealous and too network noisy. This might be helpful, an article about the first 10 things to do. I seem…

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RCS

Revision Control System, one of the grand daddies of them all. I still use it because its simple and does not have a network interface. Actually, I don’t use it anymore, because it is not a network solution. Links The featured image comes from an OStechnix article on VCS. An O’reilly five minute tutorial http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/rcs/…

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System V init scripts

I really like Ubuntu’s system V initialisation scripts and features. This is now based on the LSB standard. The Debian Wiki documents how to make an LSB init script here…. This has been replaced by systemd.

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Centos 6.x

I downloaded this from http://centos.mirroring.pulsant.co.uk/6.4/isos/x86_64/ The comments on downloading and installing packages to allow Virtual Box Guest Additions on my Centos 5.3 pages seem to still apply. You need a bunch of non-standard packages and to set a variable to point at the Kernel Source.

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