I’ve recently bought an HP G61-401SA Laptop, and installed a dual boot system with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10. I won’t go through the build process, because building a dual-boot system is well documented elsewhere. After installing Ubuntu, most of the laptop features worked fine, the exceptions are listed below.
Here’s a little header file for C/C++ that I knocked up to make colouring console output a little easier. Not all of these colour codes are supported by every console emulator, but if you stick to the primary colours, you should be fine. File: shellColours.h
Sometimes, a script which works perfectly fine when run from the shell, fails when run as a cron job. It’s often quite difficult to debug these problems, but to make the task a little easier, try this. Edit the crontab file with crontab -e Add this line for your script…
Here’s an annoying little foible of BASH shell scripting. I’ve been trying to writea script to test authorization against a list of servers, and fire off an email if any of the servers doesn’t respond. The lis tof servers is in a text file, and I’ve got a while loop…
For a while now I’ve been looking for an X server for Windows, so that I can start X applications from within a secure shell. Up until now Hummingbird has a been a fair solution, but I’ve never been too impressed with it. I’d never been able to get it…