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September 11th – A Day Of National Remembrance 11 Sep 2012 | 08:52 pm
8:46:30 AM EST September 11th, 2001. Few of us, if any, had the slightest idea that at that moment in time, on that date, our lives, in one way or another, would change forever. At that moment, Americ...
Preupgrade From Fedora 16 To Fedora 17 Boots To Old Fedora 16 Kernel Issue(Fix) 31 May 2012 | 01:59 pm
There seems to be a slight issue with using preupgrade to go from Fedora 16 to Fedora 17 when it comes to the kernel. It seems that Fedora has started a new process of keeping kernel versions as close...
Fedora 16 To Fedora 17 Upgrade A Success Using Preupgrade 31 May 2012 | 01:46 am
Yesterday, May 29th, 2012, was the official release of the new Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle. While I was at work and couldn’t update yesterday, and since today is my day off, I took the plunge. Yep, I deci...
How To Backup And Move VirtualBox Machines 10 Apr 2012 | 01:59 pm
VirtualBox is a great application for running other OS’s inside your current OS without having to do a physical install of the OS. Moving them or backing them up can be a bit tricky though. Hopefully ...
Mount Your Box.com Account In Linux 10 Apr 2012 | 09:56 am
Box.net (box.com actually now) is a service that enables you to have a place to put files that you want to access from anywhere. Some people use it to back up their workstations. Did your box.net moun...
Colored Man Pages And How To Get Them Working 10 Apr 2012 | 08:51 am
Colored Man Pages And How They Work Colored man pages can make it a bit easier to read them instead of the old boring monochrome we get by default. I’ll show you how to set them up and also give you t...
Auto Complete Bash Commands From History 25 Mar 2012 | 03:51 pm
I’ve been a Linux user now for 11+ years. Most of it has been spent using the command line(CLI) for many various things. Because of that, I like to use the same commands a lot. I also keep a long runn...
Apologies About The Down Time… 9 Mar 2012 | 01:13 pm
I just wanted to write a quick note to let everyone know that LFD should be back to normal now. Might be a few images missing here and there, especially within posts. Unfortunately those have been los...
SSH And Uses For The ~/.ssh/config File 19 Feb 2012 | 12:19 pm
For system and network administrators or other users who frequently deal with sessions on multiple machines, SSH ends up being one of the most oft-used Unix tools. It usually works so well that unti...
VIM Cheat Sheet 26 Jan 2012 | 01:31 pm
Here is the full size version: VIM Cheat Sheet Full Size This is for the all the VIM users out there!
