Author: Brian
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Crontab – @reboot and other shortcuts
I discovered a handy crontab feature today. If you use @reboot instead of the typical five fields, it will run the command at startup. There are several other useful options: Instead of the first five fields, one of eight special strings may appear: string meaning —— ——- @reboot Run once, at startup. @yearly Run once…
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Wavy External Monitor VGA-0
The issue: Ever since I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, I have been unable to use an external monitor with my laptop. I tried several times to find a solution, but the problem was difficult to describe, and that made searching for answers difficult. Yesterday, I found a bug report which matched my symptoms and hardware.…
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Starting an X11 Program Remotely
Have you ever wanted to start a graphical program (X11) remotely on computer? I found myself wanting to be able to cause a program to open on the physical screen and session on a computer while I was connected to it remotely via SSH. After some searching online, I found the answer on serverfault.com. The…
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Watch Over Me – Lyrics by Aaron Shust
Watch Over Me by Aaron Shust I was lonely You came waltzing over to me And Your eyes they saw right through me And You heard each one of my cries for help And You came to rescue me I was broken Every prayer that I had spoken Reached Your ears and all my tears…
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Fixing “No Service” in Android Emulator on Linux
When running the Android emulator in Ubuntu 9.10, it may start up without any emulated GSM service. If this happens, there will be no data connection inside the emulator, and it will say “(No Service)” in the notification panel. Steve on the “android-developers” Google Group found a workaround. Add -bootchart 100 To the emulator options.…
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Pulling from a Remote GIT Branch
To set up your local GIT repository to pull from a new remote branch which another developer has created, you first have to update the list of branches by issuing the command $ git pull Then once you have the latest branch information, you can view all the remote branches. $ git branch -r origin/recording…
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What’s Your Calling? (1 Corinthians 1:1-9)
The following are my notes from Pastor Dan Tuttle’s message this week. Click on the link below to listen to the audio of the message. Sunday, October 18, 2009 – Pastor Dan Tuttle – What’s Your Calling? – 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 Scripture References Acts 19, Acts 18, 2 Peter 1:10, Acts 18:17, 1 & 2…
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Ubuntu Dual Monitors
Setting up dual monitors in Ubuntu (Karmic) has been easy for quite awhile especially if you are using an Nvidia chipset. Using the nvidia-settings application allowed me to configure everything I needed. The problem was when I tried to save the configuration so it would persist when I rebooted. The utility said that it could…
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MySQL readline vs. editline
In the the latest version of Ubuntu (Karmic) I’ve discovered that my vi bindings have stopped working in the mysql 5.1 client. The delete key only echos a “~” (tilde) into the mysql shell and ctrl+left arrow and ctrl+right arrow produce control sequences instead of jumping by words. The problem is that in the latest…