Tag Archives: Ubuntu

Windows and Linux – Quest for Best Practices

In a few days I’m going to update two of my computers. One of them (Athlon X2) used to run as a server with Ubuntu 9.04, the other one (Intel Core 2 Duo) was configured as a dual-boot system with … Continue reading

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Ubuntu: .nano_history Permission denied

If you do man nano, you’ll see there’s a /etc/nanorc config file. Edit this to comment out #set historylog. This will prevent sudo nano commands from creating the root users .nano_history in your home directory, which nano can’t read when … Continue reading

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Mounting NAS with Read-Write Permissions

When I browsed my shared folders on the Lacie Ethernet Disk I noticed that I didn’t have any write access in Ubuntu, even though I explicitly gave read/write access to the NAS users. As I was never asked for a … Continue reading

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Music Networking with XMMS2, Icecast2 and Last.fm

In the last few months I haven’t found much time to listen to music, but I decided this needs to change and I should finally dust off my old music library. About two years ago I signed up for last.fm, … Continue reading

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