Kirrus’ Blog

Here are just some morsels of information about the Linux Command line, and more specifically, Ubuntu Linux Command line / system.

Users can be added to a group with the command:

sudo adduser <username> <groupname>

In ubuntu, the default system shell is “Dash”. That does speed up your system boot, but it also introduces problems with those scripts [...]

Open Office keeps automatically trying to guess what you’re typing? Sometimes it can be useful, especially if you’re doing something quite repetitive. However, it can also be a bit dumb at times.
Now, Open Office predictive text, actually comes under auto-complete. Don’t ask me why, as to my mind at least, that’s a completely illogical place [...]

Effectively, by this tutorial, we will be disabling logins on the ubuntu box, and just using gdm and the x-server to talk to a server on the local network using XDMCP. This means, that you’ll actually login to the remote server, and use the remote servers’ data and processing power.
WARNING: This will disable GUI access [...]

Firstly, when doing hardware maintenance, remember to plug all leads back in. (I’m so glad I’m not the only one who’s forgotten this: http://err.no/personal/blog/tech/2007-02-06-12-38_powerless_disks)

To open a terminal in Ubuntu, go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal

To add shortcuts from the applications listing to your desktop or top/bottom panel, browse to the location of the program [...]