A good friend of mine mentioned that SSH supports escape sequences – something I had never thought of. Or rather, something I had wished for every time I’d been faced with a dead SSH connection. Turns out, you can easily close any SSH connection (dead or alive) by issuing the following sequence: <CR>~. The CR [...]

This is a note to self and any others that may find themselves in a similar situation. Should you happen to one day start your computer, wait for your linux distro to boot up and then see the following message swap: waiting for UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx without anything else happening, then don’t panic! At least not yet. [...]

In Alarms in Ubuntu, I published a script that lets you set an alarm from the command line, nice and easy. One thing was lacking though: visual notification of the alarm, so if you happen to be away from the computer when the alarm sounds you’ll still see the dialog box. To achieve that I’ve [...]

I’ve been looking for a while for a good, easy to use, easy to install, no fuss alarm clock. Just something I can set to go off in 10 minutes. Or at 2 o’clock. Or tomorrow. I haven’t found any apps that did that in a nice and easy fashion. I have found several that [...]

Because I’m freelancing for my previous employer, telecommuting in effect, I’ve become a big fan of screen. I didn’t see the benefit of using the program at first, but when you’re logging into a machine with ssh and then have to log into one or two more, after that, you soon become very happy about [...]