Category Archives: Linux

Clean out old kernels (and grub while you’re at it)

Posted on 2010-10-29 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Again, more for my own reference than anybody else’s… We’re talking Ubuntu here, by the way. I’m on 10.04 on my laptop and just installed 10.10 on the desktop Problem: lots of Kernel entries in Grub (even had this dropping … Continue reading →

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Where did I put that nifty function I wrote?

Posted on 2010-10-21 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

I know everyone probably knows this, but I’m noting this here, more for my benefit than other people’s. Consider the following (addled Alzheimers programmers are familiar I’m sure…) About to write a new script but sure that you’ve done something … Continue reading →

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PD is back!

Posted on 2010-06-14 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

After a few days wondering what I was going to do about pure data not being in the lucid repositories, Peter (Vasil) pointed me in the right direction. He told me to look here https://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/ and download the latest build. … Continue reading →

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Make the windows partition mount at startup in Ubuntu

Posted on 2010-06-02 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

You just edit your fstab! All you need is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab The reason I wanted to do this is because the documents I synchronise with Sophia, the plan b directory of current project files, is on the windows partition of … Continue reading →

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Great Perl Script for GPX files and OpenStreetMap

Posted on 2010-06-01 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Two of my favourite things: free and open software that people work on and share with us all and the map that everyone can contribute to have been bought together by Thomas Fischer. He has written and published a Perl … Continue reading →

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