Archive for the ‘UNIX’ Category.
Build a Custom Repository for CentOS 5
This will walk you through the steps of creating a local repository. We did this initially to allow for a Custom out of band version of a package. It’s not officially supported, nor is it part of the various Centos 5.3 depots (os, updates, CentOSPlus, CentOS Extras, etc.)
Simple HTTP server in OS-X
If you need a quick way to share a directory
Open a terminal window, change to the directory you want to share and type
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
It’s even better as an alias.
alias serve='echo Serving ${PWD} from ${HOSTNAME}:8080$;python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080'
From Macworld
Mouse Scroll Wheel not working for Ubuntu 9 under VMware Fusion
In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I had these (oddly, correct) setting for the mouse. They were originally commented out, but not below.
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My .conkyrc setup
I had a very hard time getting conky to stay on my desktop. If I clicked on the desktop, the program would disappear. It seems that
own_window yesneeded to be
own_window no
My full ~/.conkyrc after the jump
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