3 Ways to Install Software in Ubuntu 10.04
Before switching the web site up I had a number of links to videos I’d created for Youtube. The video below shows three different methods for installing software in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Linux. Two methods cover graphical tools, Ubuntu Software Centre and Synaptic Package Manager. Synaptic has been removed from the default install of [...]
Linux is… poster in Inkscape svg format.
We all know Linux is a great operating system. There are a number of posters around the Internet that promote Linux, but many were dated or didn’t quite capture what I wanted to say for Computer Recycling. I quickly threw together the poster above in Inkscape using screenshots from my own system. Please feel free [...]
Directory space with du
This morning I was updating one of our file servers and I noticed that the server was getting quite full (91% disk space used on /). This server does a lot of different things, part PXE-boot Linux installer, part file server (for ISO images) and part workstation for some of the Working Centre IT staff. [...]
Recovering data from formatted drives using foremost
Update: March 9, 2012 – I recommend checking out David Pettifor’s article on Data Recovery using Linux tools. The article on this site is a primer on recovering data from a formatted/overwritten drive. This technique works well on hard drives that have been formatted or have had an operating system reinstalled on the system, but [...]
Software Freedom Day Kitchener/Waterloo 2011
I’ve been thinking about Software Freedom Day 2011 in Kitchener, Ontario. The Working Centre has previously hosted Software Freedom Day in 2008 and 2009. In 2010 we had very little time to organize and the wonderful folks at Kwartzlab organized the event. I’ve registered a page on the Software Freedom Day wiki for the event, [...]
