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I guess when I mentioned “risk of breakage” w/regards to Arch Linux I was correct. After few days monitoring the chat channel and forums, I can easily see that the whole “rolling release” thing does indeed cause things to stop working on a semi-regular basis. At least, it’s a fair number folks who have had… — read more

Arch Linux is pretty cool. It has some good features. What distinguishes one Linux distribution from another? The package manager and available packages The default software choices and configs Technical documentation Arch Linux shines in all three of these areas. The package manager specifically allows for third parties to put together their own packages in… — read more

After a number of weeks messing with Linux on my two PCs awhile back, I finally decided it was really not a wise use of my time. I was learning a few things. But it was seriously eating up all of my time. However, now that I’ve been back on Windows 8 for awhile I’m… — read more

I don’t know who picked the magical “two-year” time span that cellular service contracts typically run. But I know I’m usually ready for a new phone about six months before I am eligible. And my current phone is no exception. I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus. I am exactly six months from being able to… — read more

Blogging is interesting. I have no idea if anyone is reading this or not. But I think when doing a blog, one needs to ignore that entirely and write as if the whole world is reading. I came to a conclusion a couple of days ago. And I remembered some of the reasons why I… — read more

So, yesterday I switched my systems back to Ubuntu proper. The purpose was mainly to clean up my installs from all my messing around. I had originally installed both systems as Ubuntu. Then I ran some command string I found on the web that removed Unity and installed the standard Gnome3 desktop environment. And after… — read more

Here is a little different example. This script does one of two commands based on the presence of an argument. It displays a sorted list of installed packages using dpkg (for systems that use that particular type of package management). If an argument is passed, it will only include packages that contain that search argument.… — read more

In doing some bash scripting… I use some simple scripts to automate commands so I don’t have to type in (or remember) all the parameters. This script uses the du command to show me the disk usage on directories. The depth parameter specifies how deep in the path to go when reporting. I wanted the… — read more

Here’s a cute little backup script I wrote. Just a little smarts to suit my particular situation. But I did learn how to prompt for a parameter and do a case statement. The rsync command is a very powerful backup tool. On this particular backup drive (Lacie) I have two sets of backups… (/backup1/ and… — read more