Here are some tips on how to make Gnome 3 behave a bit more like Gnome 2, to help you transition into this new and unfamiliar territory. Most of them are from this thread on Fedora Forums. Tip 1: Maximise and Minimise If you thought Ubuntu were naughty moving the buttons to the left, you [...]
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Living with Gnome 3
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Unity (Ubuntu 11.04)
I am writing this post using Ubuntu 11.04 using the new ‘Unity Desktop’. In the interest of fairness and because I really don’t want to say goodbye to Ubuntu, I have been giving it a try for a while to see if I can adapt. Let me start with the criticism. There seem to be [...]
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A cunning problem with for loops
I came across a cunning little problem with for loops where the values being parsed contain spaces, and can offer a couple of solutions to it. I'll explain what I mean with some code. If you md5sum a bunch of files, you get this kind of output: I wanted to iterate through a list of [...]
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Upgrading bugzilla from 3.0.x to 3.4.6
A few weeks ago I updated a 3 year old installation of Bugzilla to the most recent version, and made these notes along the way. The Bugzilla online documentation is pretty good and my plan was formed using their docs as a guide. Send advance warning to users Log on to site, edit params and [...]
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Managing multiple PuTTys
I don't have any Linux cluster servers to look after but do manage 2 Linux server farms. They are similar to clusters in that they are both groups of RHEL servers that all have to have an identical config. The larger of these farms is 12 RHEL 5.3 servers, and to roll out changes to [...]
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Get system stats automatically on SSH login
I noticed in recent versions of Ubuntu you get some system stats in a banner message when you connect using SSH. I thought this was pretty useful so have implemented my own version on our Red Hat servers at work. This runs every 5 minutes as a cron job and updates the file /etc/motd (Message [...]
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Working with Logical Volumes
I'm actually coming around to Linux LVM - once you get the hang of the concepts and the associated commands it can be a straightforward exercise to extend your existing volumes after adding new physical disks. This differs from software RAID, as you have the ability to lay an LVM filesystem over a single disk [...]
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Resize swap partitions on Red Hat Linux
First of all a little disclaimer - although I've done this a few times and never had any problems, one should never consider resizing partitions a completely foolproof exercise. Things can go wrong. With regards to swap though, don't worry if your swap partition is destroyed as this will not harm your system - most [...]
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