I want to tell you the story of Ted. He is a friend who is passionate about computer science and a passionate Linux user. Every day, Ted starts his day by turning on his PC and starting the applications necessary for his daily work, let’s talk about the classic email clients, browsers, chats, and more. Every day, Ted repeats the[…]
Read moreThe Bash configuration file can do a lot of things to improve your work: aliases, functions and prompt configurations improve workflow and help to be more efficient. In my recent post about setting up Ubuntu with Bash scripts, I briefly alluded to the magic of .bashrc. This didn’t really do it justice, so here’s a quick post that offers a[…]
Read moreUsing virtual machines, containers or, in general, templates for deploying server systems, often make you lose the ability to customize Linux servers at install time because of deployment wizards. A script above the wizard Alternative for sudo users, a little script for configuring the server in a minute. After the server is deployed, just log in, run the script and[…]
Read moreUsing i3wm, I’m very pleased with the fact that at startup I can found all my everyday applications opened and placed on the relative workspaces. Anyway, sometimes I need different configuration (especially on the netbook) and I fit better with a manual launch of the programs. Bash, bin and nohup to make an easy starter script With nohup we can[…]
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