Archive for January, 2008
Linux File System Summary (0)
January 19th, 2008 by Emil Swenson in Linux
As you probably know in Ubuntu everything is under the root or /. All drives that you will ever use will start with /. That doesn’t mean that they’re not segregated from your OS and application stuff.
Let’s say you have 3 drives. You have one drive house the / paritition. Within that, you can have another drive house the /home partition, and yet another the /media/files partition. If your / drive somehow dies, you still have the /home and /media/files housing drives intact! You can simply reinstall the OS and get back to work. The point I’m trying to make is that while it seems that everything in Ubuntu is a single drive, is may only seem this way. continue reading »
Linux Partitions — They Make Sense! (0)
90% of computer users use Windows. In Windows the command line is largely foregone in favour of GUI (graphical user interface) tools like ‘Computer Management’ and just right-clicking on everything and selecting ‘Properties.’ While Linux (a.k.a. GNU/Linux) has about as many GUI tools intended for administration, it is much more convenient and consistent to use a single tool–the command line interface (CLI). continue reading »
Clearing Out Your Bash History (0)
Sometimes you’re forced to write passwords directly into your CLI of choice due to poor programming practices, poor user practices (if you’re me), or simply because you don’t have time to be the James Bond of the CLI. In such cases you need to make sure that the password doesn’t stay logged on your system. continue reading »
New Domain, New Template, New Concept (3)
January 13th, 2008 by Emil Swenson in General
First things first–the transfer is complete. This’ll be the domain I use from now on. I’ve setup the server myself. The specs are fairly respectable and the pipe is good. I’ll be continually playing with my LAMP and OS setup in order to achieve maximum performance with what I have. continue reading »
