The Swinger « Music Machinery. – Using Python to tweak songs with a swing beat Every Breath You Take (swing version) by TeeJay [More]

Ubuntu 9.04 bug with networking directory creation « RimuHosting Blog. I ran ifup and got the following errors root@charon ~ # ifup eth0 ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: No such file or directory … so i checked and /var/run/network did not exist… This link had a bit more technical information. They said look [More]

Free is a command line interface (CLI) tool available on most Linux and Unix based systems. From the man page… … displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers used by the kernel.” Running free, you get output similar to the following (by [More]

To upgrade in place for releases that are no longer officially supported please see… http://www.nzlinux.com/2009/06/upgrading-older-releases-of-ubuntu-when-support-ends/ Depending on the installation it might be substantially faster to do a clean reinstall and migrate your content from backups. YMMV. If you are already on one of the LTS [More]

So you want to use a revision control system and you picked git? Cool . Assuming you are setting a service up from scratch, check out the following… [More]

Canonical and analyst firm RedMonk released findings of a survey sent to thousands of Ubuntu Server users. It was developed with the Ubuntu community and was completed by almost 7,000 respondents. The companies says the survey confirmed that Ubuntu was being widely used in the most common workloads (web, print, file, database and mail servers) [More]

A friend asked me today how I first got into Linux. Which got me thinking, since it’s a bit of a way back in the mists of time, and I couldn’t quite recall . The process started about when Windows XP came out I think. My PC then was a lively 486DX33.  I believe that [More]

Programming Texts/Tutorials. is a very interesting and comprehensive list of prgramming aids [More]

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