If you’ve just installed Thunderbird on Fedora 13, you’ve probably noticed the Global Search bar is missing. At least, this is one of the first things I noticed. After using Thunderbird 3.x for sometime on Windows I’ve really come to love this feature. It seems the default configuration on Fedora doesn’t enable this feature by [...]
Quick and simple way of burning an ISO image from the command line in Linux. First, find your devices with wodim, the use the cdrecord command to burn the ISO image. $ wodim –devices wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) : ————————————————————————- 0 dev=’/dev/scd0′ rwrw– : ‘LITE-ON’ ‘DVDRW LH-20A1P’ ————————————————————————- $ cdrecord -v dev=’/dev/scd0′ [...]
I’ve been using dropbox to sync and share files between my various computers for quite some time, and overall have been very pleased. However, one area things are not so great… documentation for installation on Linux. After having to reinstall on my notebook, I decided to somewhat document the hidden part of the process. After [...]
A project involving asterisk has forced me to find a way to help manage my configurations. I’m going to give using subversion a go at helping me to keep some level of change control and really simple backups, and I’m going to share my thoughts on that here. This post doesn’t have any new details, [...]
Create a tar archive tar -c -f archive.tar * Create a compressed archive with gzip tar -c -z -f archive.tar.gz * You can also condense down the commands like so.. tar -czf archive.tar.gz *