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My main OS is, and will probably stay Linux, namely the Ubuntu flavour so I probably will be writing every now and then a little post about my thoughts on the subject…
If you ever need to merge multiple git repositories into a single repository and also keep the history, then i have just the script for you. This script will keep your branches and tags, but since tags often are called the same, the tags and branches of a repository is renamed so that the original… Continue reading “Merging of Git Repositories”
If you have ever run into the problem that your computer will not send e-mails directly, then this might help. Install Postfix and configure it as a satellite server. This was done on a Ubuntu desktop installation, so I don’t know what Fedora and co. will say. In the /etc/postfix/main.cf file add or modify the… Continue reading “Postfix Satellite configuration: Remote SMTP with auth”
Notes on getting Ubuntu netboot to work so that I don’t have to burn any CD’s This document expects a DHCP server to be available in the network Install tftp sudo aptitude install tftpd-hpa tftp-hpa Get netboot files: cd /var/lib/tftpboot sudo wget -r -nH -np –cut-dirs=8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/\ ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/installer-amd64/\ current/images/netboot find ./ -name “index.*” | sudo… Continue reading “Ubuntu Netboot”
In certain cases running a VirtualBox VM in a headless linux environment can lead to a Windows XP having an undesired resolution. I fixed this using the following two commands: Global command: VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/MaxGuestResolution 1920,1200 For a running VM: VBoxManage controlvm “remote” setvideomodehint 1920 1200 24 I found the resolution in this forum:… Continue reading “VirtualBox resolution problems in a headless environment”
Over the years I have grown used to the fact that when I search for a package on a debian based distro, then I use: apt-cache search foo bar The result was a list of all the packages which had the text ‘foo’ and ‘bar’ in the description. Lately it has been discouraged to use… Continue reading “aptitude search vs apt-cache search”
While writing bash scripts, I find it a good idea to put reusable functions into their own scripts and then source them into other scripts. This means that one must use the source /file/to/source call to load these files. To be able to do this, the bash script must know where the scripts to source… Continue reading “Determining the base directory of a bash script”
For the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, the developers decided to remove the Interface tab in System -> Preferences -> Appearance. What made them do that I can not fathom. Yet there is (still) an option to put the icons back. You can put it back for all new users by adding the following two lines… Continue reading “Ubuntu 10.04 and Lucid Lynx: No icons in menu or buttons”
To be able to use windows fonts like Verdana, Tahoma and so forth in Latex documents on an Ubuntu Jaunty Jackelope you need to install the winfonts package from CTAN. The following steps explains what I undertook to use these fonts: 1. First download the winfonts package from CTAN 2. Find your Tahoma and/or Verdana… Continue reading “Adding Verdana / Tahoma / winfonts LaTeX support in Ubuntu 9.04”
If you’re running your own DNS Server and your internet connection is using DHCP to get the WAN IP, then you might run into the same problem I have. I have configured my own LAN DNS-Server on a local IP and configured this in /etc/resolv.conf. Periodically the DHCP Client refreshes the WAN IP, thus overwriting… Continue reading “DHCP Internet and own DNS Server”
I don’t want to search for the right commands everytime I want to connect to a windows machine with RDP when I’m on a Linux machine running Ubuntu or Kubuntu that is. The best tool I know, that really does the work is rdesktop. Install this package: sudo apt-get install rdesktop And then just connect… Continue reading “Remote Desktop from Ubuntu”