Monthly Archives: September 2011

While process is running, press CTRL-z, then… $ bg (the output may come to foreground again, but you can logout now and the process will continue running in the background)

You must use full paths to all arguments for daemonize. As of now, daemonize must be downloaded and compiled, it does not exist in APT. $ daemonize /usr/full/path/to/node /home/full/path/to/app.js

apt-get install -y pkg-config

Sendmail sometimes uses a lot of disk IO by kicking off this process: 215 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 1 0.0 187:49.63 [jbd2/dm-0-8] Tools you can try using: iostat iotop Before: # iostat 1 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system … Continue reading →

APT packages needed to play FFmpeg .avi files: p gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg – FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer p gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad – GStreamer plugins from the “bad” set

Reduce usage in your right hand using these mappings. – Mirror up and down keys – Shift left and right keys to the left hand – ‘s’ (change one character and insert) becomes ‘h’ – ‘d’ (‘dd’ deletes a line) … Continue reading →

General steps (for example, the /etc directory) Install Ubuntu Server Log in and sudo bash. Import the /etc directory into your SVN repository. Check out the new directory and call it “/etc.new” Move out the old directory: “mv /etc /etc.old” … Continue reading →

svn import myfolder svn+ssh://kitamura@svn2.cs.lmu.edu/svn/myfolder \ -m “my comment”