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After Oneiric Ocelot – Ubuntu 12.04
My dad and I were trying to figure out what would come after Oneiric Ocelot or Ubuntu 11.10. Well, you can read some of the suggestions for the 12.04 name. Some of my favorites are: Perpetual Phoenix Philosophical Pegasus Pragmatic Penguin
restart: Rejected send message – Ubuntu Lucid
I installed a little ftp-server on my ubuntu dev-server. After configuring some ports and other users, I needed to restart the service. Since most daemons run as services now, anything /etc/init.d/name restart is now just service name restart. But of course, nothing is that easy. ryan@ryan-desktop:~$ service vsftpd restart I ran this to restart the [...]
IP address from hostname – Ubuntu Lucid
If you have an IP address but you don’t have a hostname to go along with it, you can easily get it via Ubuntu’s host command. For instance, I have an IP, 97.115.69.11, and I needed the hostname. To get it, I simply ran host 97.115.69.11. ryan@ryan-desktop:~$ host 97.115.69.11 11.69.115.97.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 97-115-69-11.mpls.qwest.net. Happy [...]
Do Nothing on Lid Close – Ubuntu
I took my parents old 32-inch flat screen TV into the basement and hooked it up to an old laptop I had just sitting around. With Ubuntu on it, I wanted to keep it shut and tucked out of the way, and just remote in whenever I wanted to do something with it. Great idea, [...]
Install the Latest Google Chrome on Ubuntu
If Firefox is too slow for you now, Google Chrome might be worth it. I’ve used the Ubuntu Software Center since I started using Ubuntu last year to grab Chrome from the official open source channels, but lately it’s been outdated because Google releases Chrome at the speed of light. Since the USC is slow [...]