Tag: Linux
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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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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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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…