In my last post, I gave you a glimpse to runlevels, their purpose, and how they affect the overall operation of your box. Today, in this post, I am going to dig deeper into runlevels, as well as manipulating services in specific runlevels. I’m going to show you why you want to do [...]
As many of you are probably already aware, I’m a Linux trainer for Guru Labs. We do all Linux training, including Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, and others. If your company is looking for good, solid Linux training, Gurus at Guru Labs are the cream of the crop, and I’d highly recommend it. [...]
There are a few things that I find ironic about most Free Software geeks. They’ll support the philosophy of GNU and Free Software until the cows come home, but they’ll continue to chat with their buddies over proprietary IM protocols, such as MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Gadu Gadu, Skype and more.
Well, it’s time to [...]
From the terminal (emphasis mine):
aaron@kratos:~ 1268 % aptitude show aptitude
Package: aptitude
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 0.4.6.1-1ubuntu3
Priority: important
Section: admin
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers
Uncompressed Size: 9449k
Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6-4.5, libc6 (>= 2.6-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1),
libncursesw5 (>= 5.6), libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2), libstdc++6 (>=
4.2.1)
Recommends: [...]
There seems to be a trend, as of recently, for large companies to become OpenID providers, but now allow logging into their service with your OpenID account. The trend I’m noticing, is everyone wants to be a provider, but no one wants to support OpenID logins. Well not “no one”, but not the [...]
Disclaimer: I don’t know enough about Upstart to hold a low-level conversation about it. What I do know of Upstart is what I have read on the Ubuntu wiki, the Upstart FAQ and a few docs scattered here and there around the web. If I have misrepresented Upstart, its goals or intentions, or [...]
I was spending some time today on Wikipedia, reading the entry on Ubuntu, and something hit me- something which I’ve known for a long while. I decided to sit down and blog it for those who haven’t really thought about it. Maybe this post will catch you unaware, and maybe not.
Ubuntu is ONE [...]
Today, I went grocery shopping at Albertson’s. I know that they use cards in order for you to save money. Actually, all those cards are good for is tracking your spending habits, and targeting advertisements to your home, and solicitation calls to your phone number. So, for the past few years, I’ve [...]
Lionel Dricot entrusted me with organizing Open Discussion Day, 2008. This came as quite the compliment, as I switched to Jabber only for IM back in 2006, when it first started, and have been publicly supporting and advocating it since. So, for this year, I’m excited to see things take shape.
First, what is [...]
For those who read my post in your RSS reader, and then came to my blog in hopes to comment, you will notice the post removed. For those of you who are frequent readers of my blog, and have been reading for a while, you have probably noticed that I do this on occasion. [...]
