Joe

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Long time Linux user (currently kubuntu). Use Windows 98, XP, and 7 when I have to. Programmed in many languages, currently using bash and awk for most things.

Have one project on sourceforge:

Duplex printing emulator for non-duplex printers (Linux) http://sourceforge.net/projects/duplexpr/

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Feb 8	comment	How to truely install a tar.gz file on Linux - how to manage manually-installed (or standalone) applications? The biggest technical thing I don't like about Windows is the registry. It causes many more problems than it's worth and is why so many installs include a reboot. Thankfully, Linux has no such thing! What it does have is package management systems and repositories which make it easier to find and install software already configured for your distro and desktop environment. One of the major advantages of using these is that when a developer updates their software package, it automagically becomes available as an update for your system.
Feb 8	comment	How to truely install a tar.gz file on Linux - how to manage manually-installed (or standalone) applications? Great answer. One thing that is often necessary (or at least preferred) is to do a sudo make install as the last step (with a package you trust). That gives the process the permissions it needs to put things in system directories not owned by your user (like /usr/bin).
Feb 3	comment	How to Find a Fugitive Crontab +1 because it shows how to get the problem to explain itself!
Jan 29	comment	Passing arguments to KOrganizer event reminder bash/yad scripts I'll try that as soon as I can get back to it in a day or two. Since there's really nothing shell-like left to be done, Just leaving it in single quotes would probably be fine - unless my text has some embedded ones.
Jan 27	comment	Passing arguments to KOrganizer event reminder bash/yad scripts @DeerHunter Yes. Tried all that (some since posting the original question). The problem is getting the arguments to the script. That's why I just rewrote the question when I figured that much out. Thanks for trying the script!
Jan 25	comment	Disable screen blackout in KDE while watching iPlayer There's a utility called caffeine that purports to turn off screensavers while video is playing. I installed it on kubuntu precise and it crashes. YMMV.
Jan 19	comment	How to decide that mv moves into a directory rather than replacing directory? I don't remember where I saw it, but when they designed Plan 9 (sort of a successor to UNIX) they split moving from renaming commands specifically to address situations like this.
Jan 13	comment	How to scroll in a terminal using keyboard? Shift+Uparrow and shift+Downarrow also work for line at a time scrolling.
Jan 13	comment	Overflow /tmp mounted when there is free space on / Your setup is a lot different than mine (kubuntu 12.04) so I'm not really sure what I'm looking at, but... I don't use squid/safesquid. But I'm wondering why you have /dev/mapper as part of your "path" to /. I thought that was an lvm thing. Also, my tempfs is defaulting to 1.2G - quite a bit larger than yours (if your blocks are 512). Also, it looks like /tmp is on tempfs (which is very small) - Shouldn't it be under / ?
Dec 15	comment	KDE System Tray Organizer In the quick launch area, I set it to use 2 lines and that was what made the icons there small (which was what I wanted.)
Nov 16	comment	Make program first read from pipe, then from keyboard The above solution is probably optimal. If you're using a gui desktop, then also take a look at AutoKey. It will let you build macros that can do almost anything you can do from a keyboard. It gets a little tricky if you have to wait for things to happen, or have to get data from the screen, but if you know python (the language its macros are coded in), the sky is the limit.
Oct 20	comment	What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? +1 for great explanation. Also, I had never heard of mklost+found. I'm off to man
Oct 20	comment	How to run a command without hitting Enter Key? @user13107 Not so much historical as just the ASCII code definition itself. When ASCII was pretty much all there was (unless you were in IBM land) the Return and Linefeed keys had to be coded as something so we could type them on our trusty ASR-33 teletypes or our punch cards. There's even an ascii package you can install that will display it. The Ctrl key just took the code for one of the first 32 characters and set one bit back to 0. For M, it changed a 4D to a 0D which is a carriage return (and there really was a carriage on an ASR-33.)
Oct 13	comment	Linux program to look into what you're downloading With top, iftop and nload, information changes rather quickly. Aside from altering the display update frequency, can you give any tips on how to assimilate this information - especially when you're not in the habit of looking at such things all the time?
Sep 28	comment	Execute a command before shutdown I just took a look at the skeleton file in init.d (kubuntu precise) and got a bit intimidated. I just want to add a couple of commands that echo the date of shutdown into a file under /var/log. Can I just do that or do I have to deal with some of the other things in the skeleton file?
Sep 28	comment	Does the filesystem influence flash drive speed? Lots to digest in those links. It looks like it does make a difference, but as both answers so far point out, the effect is probably much smaller than throughput constraints.
Sep 14	comment	Why updating a running Linux system is not problematic? @Nils I'm no expert, but if you run out of cache, wouldn't it be written to swap and reread from there? If that was full then some process would probably be blocked before it could take memory away from another process that is already using it.
Sep 14	comment	How to grep a specific line _and_ the first line of a file? +1 for all the great answers this generated!
Aug 11	comment	Can I configure bash to execute “clear” before every command typed in the console? Just curious: What's you application for this? Except when I'm debugging programs with a lot of output, I usually want to keep as much as possible on the screen to help me keep track of the context I'm working in.
Aug 10	comment	Which extension to use for text files? (Unix/Linux) Under KDE, dolphin will often appear to use the extension to select an appropriate icon for the file and sometimes the program that displays it. As others have noted, this is dolphin just trying to be helpful in an ambiguous situation, not some rule or convention in Linux.