linux program lists

• http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software
• http://www.turnkeylinux.org/

python links

http://www.squidoo.com/pythonology

Ubuntu

mmm, Kubuntu 9.10 64 bit (Why not? Flashplayer 64bit fairly – as in enough for me – stable )

first: sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade ; sudo apt-get install openssh-server

opera 10.01 from opera’s site (deb) ; flash 10 from : http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html ( *.so to plugin dir and viola!)

java with :  sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts ( from http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-java-runtime-environment-jre-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic.html )

and then some…

sudo apt-get mc htop nmap

edit ~/.bashrc uncomment alias ll=ls -l

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Karmic

http://www.flexion.org/

Going to ubuntu from opensuse….

first: opera: (from: http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-3788-installing-opera-10-under-ubuntu-9-04-jaunty)

sudo wget -O – http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo bash -c ‘echo “deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ sid non-free ” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera.list’
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install opera

python unicode numeric

This should not have been so difficult!

>>> print unichr(234)
ê
>>> print unichr(235)
ë

as oneliner:     python -c “print unichr(234)”

qemu

#!/bin/bash

echo modprobe kqemu >>/etc/init.d/boot.local
echo ‘KERNEL==”kqemu”, NAME=”%k”, MODE=”0666″‘ > /etc/udev/rules.d/60-kqemu.rules
#chmod a+rw /dev/kqemu

HAL

Auto mounting : (mmm)

• /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy

• /usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/rip-cd.desktop

Linux golden rules

• Use the tool that was made for the job eg: ntfs in Linux is as simple as ntfs-3g – it handles mount and fuse, no more race conditions with stale lockfiles(/etc/mtab~)
• Simplicity is its power!! eg, lots of small simple tools to eventually do big things (thinking to big to fast?)

linux/unix system administration links

How I found them (thus the whole root site is interesting… ) :

• http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts
• http://www.thegeekstuff.com/best-of-the-blog/
• http://www.cybercity.biz
• http://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/slemag

hotmail pop3

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

programming questions

• stackoverflow.com  - “collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers”