tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29004791914676824312024-03-19T15:51:25.616-07:00My Linux NotesMy Linux skills have been limited to a basic install, and getting around in the system. I've recently decided to take the O.S. more seriously and become a full time user and more of a Linux hobbyist. This is a place for me to post notes, and other helpful information. The information here is centered around Fedora and KDE but I do post about other GNU/Linux distributions. You can find useful notes, book reviews, tutorials, videos, and whatever else I think will be useful for learning this O.S.The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-29700941943799547322017-01-12T11:10:00.000-08:002017-01-12T11:10:03.317-08:00Installing Noobs On A Raspberry Pi. I started playing around with a Raspberry Pi last year and I'm totally sold on the tiny computers. If you don't know what a Raspberry Pi is, it's just a tiny computer about the size of a pack of cigarettes that you can install various operating systems on, and run IoT devices with it too. They're not super powerful but they really are fun to use and they're super cheap. You can get a basic card for around $35.00 and a complete kit minus the keyboard, mouse, and monitor, for under $75.00. One of the coolest features is that you can plug it into an HDMI television and use it as a monitor. <br />
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The best part about Raspberry Pi is that it uses a Debian GNU/linux OS called Raspbian. I've been telling everyone I know that if you're interested in learning Linux, the R-Pi is a really great little computer to do that with. On top of that, there are all kinds of websites featuring cool tutorials, projects, and neat add-ons that you can buy for the Pi. Some of the cooler projects I've seen are based around basic robotics, home automation, entertainment centers, file sharing, and I'm currently using one for a Twitter bot, and stake mining a cryptocurrency called OKcash. Lot's of fun.<br />
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This video show's the basic install and setup of a Raspberry Pi with a program called NOOBS, that pretty much does all the complicated work of getting it set up for you.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TyFDaMpdh2c" width="560"></iframe>The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-36581093772261556402016-12-30T21:32:00.000-08:002016-12-30T21:32:44.103-08:00GUI Software Review ImageWriter So over the last year I've really gotten into my Raspberry Pi. If you've never heard of a Raspberry Pi it's a tiny computer that costs under $50.00. It's not super powerful but it's perfect for running small tasks like stake mining cryptocurrency or running a bot on twitter. It's also a low power consumption device, making it the perfect device to run 24/7 without running up the power bill. The best part is it runs on a debian based operating system. <br /><br />I've been using mine for staking OKcash cryptocurrency and also running a bot on twitter. My cousin got me the latest model the Pi 3 for Christmas and I needed to get it set up. The Pi utilizes a micro SD card for a hard drive and I needed to image the SD card with the ROKOS operating system. Which brings me to what this post is all about. <br /><br />The last time I tried to do this using my OpenSuse laptop I had disastrous results. I don't know what I was doing wrong but something kept corrupting the disk image. I ended up using a friends Windows computer to get the job done. The shame! It doesn't happen often but occasionally I will resort to a Windows PC. That wasn't an option this time, but I found a great little program that was easy to install, easy to use, it's GUI and it got the job done. The program is called ImageWriter and it will image a USB drive or SD card quickly and effeciently. As far as I know it's available in most repositories. <br /><br />apt-cache search imagewriter<br />zypper search imagewriter <br /><br />So I found the program in my repository and installed it. <br /><br />zypper install imagewriter<br /><br />Once it was installed I found it in my application launcher in the utilities category. I opened the program and was thrilled with how easy it was to use. <br /><br />1) Open the program <br />2) Insert the USB drive or SD card. The second it's inserted ImageWriter recognized it. <br />3) Click on the square in the center of the program. <br />4) Go to the directory with the image that needs to be burned and select it. <br />5) Write image to disk. <br />
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<br />That's it! You're done! Simple, easy, and fast. Fantastic program. The only weird thing about it is that the progress bar gets to 100% and just disappears. There's no message that reads, "Job complete" or "Write Completed" no system bell, beep or other notification. It just disappears and you're sort of left wondering if it's really finished. <br /><br />The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-69517893413877365682016-12-29T13:49:00.000-08:002016-12-29T13:49:40.359-08:00Happy Birthday Linux. LOLZThought this was hysterical.
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Happy Holidays.. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Linux?src=hash">#Linux</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/opensource?src=hash">#opensource</a> <a href="https://t.co/NrDKp7CYFl">pic.twitter.com/NrDKp7CYFl</a></div>
— TecMint.com (@tecmint) <a href="https://twitter.com/tecmint/status/681165259730632704">December 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-42526775063630363542015-12-07T16:54:00.002-08:002015-12-07T16:59:46.695-08:00Setting The System Clock and The Hardware Clock Linux On a Linux box you have to change the system clock and the hardware clock. The hardware clock will not automatically sync with the system clock. You would think they would, but they don't. Here's what you have to do.<br />
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First open up the terminal of your choice.<br />
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Next type in the following command (This is an example, change with your date and time obviously):<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">date --set="Mon Dec 19 14:05:00 EST 2015"</span></b><br />
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This sets the day month date time timezone (EST,<b> </b>CST, PST)
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Now we need to sync the hardware clock with the system clock. To do this type:
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And were done. That's it your system clock and hardware clock should now be synced and keeping proper time. <br />
<br />The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-12820626720713760662015-05-05T13:45:00.000-07:002015-05-05T13:45:21.871-07:00Google Play Music using openSUSEFeliz Cinco de mayo ! I thought today would be a great day to just chill out, knock back a few rum and cokes or las cuba libres and figure out a decent way to share my music collection over multiple devices.<br />
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My first instinct was to set everything up on amazon music ! Boo hiss Amazon. Although you can listen to Amazon music just fine on any device for some reason they just don't like working with linux. Amazon music only allows uploads with Windows and Mac. Ironically, I called Amazon tech support one day about something else and the tech guy said it's funny because all the customer service people use linux systems. I think I remember him saying they use Ubuntu. Oh well, I find myself using Amazon less and less these days ! AMAZON Y U NO ACCEPT BITCOIN OR HAVE LINUX SUPPORT ?<br />
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O.k., I digress, after a little thought I figured I would try Google Play Music. Wow, what a pleasant surprise. Not only do they offer Linux support for some distributions, they honestly make it as easy as using a Windows computer. This was really refreshing and the first time I've experienced this. I hope this is a sign of things to come in the future. Kudos Google.<br />
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So the first thing you have to do is download the Google Play Music Manager. You can find it here.<br />
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I clicked the "Download Music Manager" button and after a couple seconds it automatically detected I had a linux system and gave me a few different distro choices. I selected the Fedora/openSUSE 64 bit link and it downloaded the file and opened and installed automatically with apper. Holy crap on a cracker in my two years of using Fedora and now openSUSE, this has never happened. The install couldn't of been any easier ! I haven't had an install this easy since the days of using Windows.<br />
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After the install I had a hard time finding the program, but after going through application launcher I found it under "applications". I clicked the program, it asked for my Google user name and password, asked which folder contained my music, and then automatically uploaded over 600 songs in under an hour. I can't tell you how impressed I am with this whole thing. Much props to Google !<br />
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There were a few other configuration choices like whether you want it to automatically upload new music, or if you will upload manually. If you decide to use Play Music, I'll leave the configuration up to you. It's really easy to use.<br />
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Now, I need to get back to some rum and cokes, download the rest of my music from Amazon, and get it uploaded to Google Play. I can now stream music from my Android tablet, phone, and openSUSE laptop ! Rock on dood !<br />
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<br />The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-32362995074202463402015-04-08T10:27:00.000-07:002015-04-08T10:27:01.233-07:00Link: zypper Cookbook Autoremove Packages and Remove Orphaned Packages<i><b>Doing some research on using zypper for package management and came across this well written informative piece. Thought I would share it here. </b></i><br />
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As I learned how to autoremove unnecessary packages as you remove a
package and also how to identify orphaned packages, I marveled at the
beauty of zypper and the excellent work of all its contributors. Not
only does zypper have the functionality to do just about anything
related to repos and packages, it has sensible online help right at your
fingertips.<br />
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Before I show how to perform these two tasks this post is primarily
about, let me show you two easy ways to figure out whether zypper can do
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<i><b><a href="https://codeghar.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/zypper-cookbook-autoremove-packages-and-remove-orphaned-packages/" target="_blank">Read the full article here. </a></b></i><br />
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<br />The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-50600603992922440242015-04-07T13:27:00.001-07:002015-04-07T13:27:07.308-07:00New Computer HP Pavilion DV7I recently traded my Dell Inspiron 1750 for a HP Pavilion DV7. I think I had the Inspiron for close to 5 years, it will be missed ! My mother asked me to fix her HP Pavilion DV7 to give to my father. She didn't have any backup disks, and lost the Windows disks to install MS Windows. I told her there was nothing I could do unless she bought a new windows disk.<br />
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The HP Pavilion was in almost new condition. I think my mother used it for a couple months, didn't like it, through it in the closet and it sat there for the last 2 or 3 years. I told her I still had the windows disk to my Dell and if she wanted I would put Windows on it, and trade her for the DV7, and she said sure.<br />
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So I've been using the DV7 for about 2 weeks now and it's taking some getting used to. I installed openSUSE 13.2 on it and it's working great. The install went real smooth , and the wireless drivers, and networking worked right out of the box. That was refreshing.<br />
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I was surprised that the Linux install went so smoothly. I literally had to configure nothing. Everything worked ! I installed openSUSE, did a few of my usual security modifications, and I was up and running in under an hour.<br />
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As far as performance I think the Dell Inspiron 1750 performed a bit better than the DV7, the Dell had a Pentium, and the HP runs an AMD chip. This is the first AMD computer I've had, but after a couple weeks of use, I think the Pentium is far superior performance wise. I'm even running 2 gigs of additional memory compared to the Dell.<br />
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The difference in performance is really noticeable when multi-tasking and I'm almost always multi-tasking.The DV7 however seems to have superior video,and sound. I'm going to be playing around with some different configurations, and maybe do an additional memory upgrade. Anyway, if your thinking about installing openSUSE 13.2 on a HP Pavilion DV7, I strongly recommend it. The install went great, and everything seems to work right out of the box.<br />
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<br />The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-19076717112777942272015-02-21T21:55:00.000-08:002015-02-21T21:55:25.374-08:00I'm just gonna put this right here. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/njos57IJf-0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-25136030238598688942015-02-17T20:09:00.000-08:002015-02-17T20:09:19.594-08:00Extract Multiple Zip Files With Ark <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The other day I needed some fresh backgrounds, clip art, and various vector graphics. I found a site named <a href="http://www.vectorportal.com/" target="_blank">Vector Portal</a> and downloaded close to 200 different vector graphic packs. Each graphic pack was zipped and contained some eps,svg, and ai files that needed to be extracted. I started the process of clicking each file and opening each individual graphics pack in ARK and after doing about 15 of them, I realized this was going to be an all day affair. Boring, not fun, and definitely not what I was planning on doing all day.
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I tried highlighting all the files and opening them all at the same time in ARK but that didn't work. Then discovered that you can do a batch extract from the command line. It was really easy and what would of took all day was now accomplished in under 2 minutes. Here's what you do.
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1) Create a directory for your compressed files, and move all the compressed files that you want to extract into that directory.
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3) Now we use ARK from the command line, and execute a batch extract like so.
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Here's what we did. <b><u><i>ark</i></u> </b>runs the ark program <u><i><b>-b</b></i></u> tells ark to use the batch interface from the command line, <b><u><i>-a</i></u> </b>creates a subfolder if ark detects it's not a single folder archive. Finally I used a wild card <u><i><b>*.zip</b></i></u> so ark extracts every file with the .zip extension in that directory. This command saved me a ton of time.<br />
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I should note two things. One, make sure you're in the right directory when you run this command or you risk extracting every zip file in your system. The other thing is this can take a little bit of time. In my case with close to 200 files it took about a minute and a half for the command to complete. Be patient, and let your computer do the work. <br />
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If you want to learn more about using ARK from the command line just type <u><i><b>man ark</b></i></u> in your terminal for all the different options that are available for this powerful program. The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-85639525059867935312015-02-04T12:35:00.000-08:002015-02-04T18:03:49.960-08:00Adjust Touchpad Delay with SynaptiksPost removed. Upon reboot, synaptiks wreaked havoc on my system. If you're looking for a way to fix this, in your system tray, find synaptiks and disable it. You may have to right click on system tray to show hidden programs. The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-22607918053935764012015-01-27T19:18:00.000-08:002015-01-27T19:18:40.536-08:00Adjusting Touchpad Delay With SyndaemonSo I've been on openSUSE now for about 3 days and I'm really enjoying it. Whenever you set up a new system or even do a simple upgrade, you often end up with little annoyances. Maybe something different in the sound, or the screen resolution changes, or in my case, the laptop touchpad is bouncing the cursor all over the screen while you type.
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This can be really annoying and cause some serious mistakes while typing. For instance, you're writing a blog post and the cursor ends up in the middle of another sentence. Worse yet, how about an accidental highlight and delete, losing everything you've typed. My personal favorite and the one that gets me cussing like Yosemite Sam going head to head with Bugs Bunny, is the cursor going over the publish button while social networking on say <a href="https://www.tsu.co/BitcoinDood" target="_blank">Tsu.com</a> and your post being submitted before you were through writing it. That just about covers everything I've endured in the last three days with this mild inconvenience. So what do you do ?
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syndaemon
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Syndaemon is the way to add a delay to your touchpad so your cursor isn't bouncing all over the screen while you're typing. For full instructions, and a list of options, just open the terminal program of your choice and type :
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<b>man syndaemon</b>
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I kept it basic, and used a command to give a 2 second delay.
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<b>syndaemon -i 2 -d </b>
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So this is what we did. <b>syndaemon</b> starts the program <b>-i</b> is the interval <b>2</b> is the amount of seconds <b>-d</b> runs the program in the background as a daemon. So for the tweeted version , the above command gives you a two second delay on the touchpad while your typing. Two seconds believe it or not seems a bit long, you might want to switch it to 1, play around with it and see what your comfortable with.
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If you're having this problem I hope this helps. This worked in openSUSE 13.2 and I hope it works for you.It was a minor annoyance but I'm glad it's gone. Thanks for reading ! The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-596939270375596512015-01-26T11:42:00.000-08:002015-01-26T11:42:52.861-08:00It's cold out there, busting out the tux hoodie !
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It's cold out there, time to bust out the tux hoody ! Found this on Amazon a couple years back. Here's a similar one.<br />
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Last night I crashed my Fedora trying to install Pipelight so I could try to watch an Amazon movie. I wasn't overly crazy about installing it in the first place. It needs Wine to run, and I really didn't want that in my computer. From what I understand Wine can make you computer vulnerable to many of the same vulnerabilities Windows has. NO THANKSi!<br />
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So I screwed up while installing it, the system crashed and ... I decided to try a new distro ! I think a little over two years on the same distro is enough and I wanted to try something new. I am now a proud openSUSE user.<br />
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I installed the openSUSE 13.2 and the install went really smoothly. As usual the broadcom drivers were a bit of a pain the ass but after doing it a few times now, I got it configured fairly quickly. I found this tutorial here, and I had no problems at all. <a href="https://forums.opensuse.org/content.php/157-Broadcom-firmware-is-needed-for-b43-but-I-have-no-network-an-easierwork-around">https://forums.opensuse.org/content.php/157-Broadcom-firmware-is-needed-for-b43-but-I-have-no-network-an-easierwork-around</a><br />
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After that, I spent the day doing a little system hardening and removing things I'm not using like, telnet, cups, and few other programs. I still want to read more about openSUSE and hardening the system. I got use to SElinux and openSUSE uses AParmor <-- might have that spelled wrong, but it's late and I'm tired.<br />
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I'm embarrassed to say I never finished the linux course I was taking. I've got a lot of stuff going on here and just haven't had time. There will be more on that in later posts. However, there are a few differences with openSUSE compared to Fedora so I think I'm going to try and finish the course, and I'll be posting here.<br />
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So for the monthly update that's five months over due, I plan on posting here more. I'll be posting about openSUSE, and linux related stuff. I'll be finishing that course now to help me get more comfortable with using openSUSE and posting regular updates here. The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-59411078349279139372014-10-07T12:25:00.000-07:002014-10-07T12:25:49.306-07:00The Code : Story Of Linux Documentary.Great video, the title says it all. <u><i><b>The Code : The Story of Linux</b></i></u>. Found this in my G+ Stream and thought it was great. Thanks <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/117701459358159314358/+JayVanGeli/posts" target="_blank">+JayVan Geli</a><br />
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/XMm0HsmOTFI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-77997807800297868072014-08-31T11:03:00.000-07:002014-08-31T11:16:49.355-07:00Chapter 4 LFS101x Introduction to Linux - REVIEWIt's a lazy Sunday afternoon in Western New York where I live. I woke up this morning to cloudy grey sky and the most excellent cool breeze blowing through the open windows. Perfect day to do a chapter of the<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> LFS101x Introduction to Linux </b>course. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm now on chapter 4 and so far so good.The first 4 chapters have been really basic, but I would highly recommend this course to any new Microsoft to Linux converts out there. A friend however, told me that the course really picks up after chapter 4. I'm gonna start chapter 5 this week. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anyway the course is really enjoyable, and I had the perfect day to relax and focus on a chapter of it. A big disappointment for me is that the course is very Gnome oriented. I currently enjoy KDE, and don't really plan on switching anytime soon. I've used Gnome till Gnome 3 and then made the switch to KDE and don't think I'll ever look back. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">For me the fact that they use Gnome is not a big deal. I can usually connect the dots and figure out the slight differences between Gnome and KDE. For a new user however this might be problematic, or at the very least, extremely confusing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I like the way they broke the labs into Fedora, Debian and Suse sytems. It would of been nice if they were a little more diverse with the desktop environment. For instance, maybe Gnome, KDE and XFCE. Or at least use KDE with the openSuse lab seeing its the default desktop for that distribution. One reason I've been thinking about making the move to openSuse. Anyway, that's my only complaint about the course so far. They should of used a couple different desktops besides just Gnome. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">So chapter 4 covers the Gnome desktop. Topics include logging in, changing users, putting the computer into sleep mode, and screen locking. Something new I learned today is that you can lock the screen using <b>ctrl-alt-l </b>. Walk away from your computer, lock screen, use root password to log back in. This comes in handy if you have to step away from your computer and you're in a room full of people you may not entirely trust. Unfortunately in my world this happens more than I'd like to admit ;-)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">The chapter also gets into a little customization and shows you how to change your desktop background, and change your computer theme. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Chapter 4 also covers basic operations. Launching programs, getting around Nautilus (Dolphin if you use KDE), finding drives, usb, cdroms, etc. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally, there was a little about using Gedit to edit a file, deleting files, and recovering files. All fairly basic straight forward stuff. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'll be starting Chapter 5 next week sometime. I'm not sure if I'm going to review each chapter but I may cover some of the interesting points covered in each chapter I read. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks for reading and if you want to find out about signing up for the course, check out my previous post with <a href="http://notes-on-using-linux.blogspot.com/2014/08/just-started-linux-course-at-edx.html" target="_blank">the sign up link here</a>. </span></span>The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-37817424265749806962014-08-29T20:58:00.000-07:002014-08-29T20:58:48.881-07:00The First 3 Chapters of LFS101x : Introduction to LinuxLast night I started the<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">LFS101x : <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx-lfs101x-introduction-1621#.VAFJuKbiOCg" target="_blank">Introduction to Linux</a> course and today I got through the 3rd chapter. The course is an edX course online and so far it's pretty interesting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Chapter 1 gets into a little information about the Linux Foundation. I found that pretty interesting. I often wondered exactly what they did, and chapter 1 explains that. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Chapter 2 is mostly about Linus Torvalds the founder of Linux. The chapter lays out a brief history of Linux, a little information about Linus Torvalds, how Linux got started, how its created, and how its works. The chapter is brief but interesting. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Chapter 3 covers installation, choosing a Linux based O.S. and a little about boot loaders, file system structure, partitioning and the boot process itself. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">So far so good. The first 3 chapters were very basic, yet very informative. The 3rd chapter already started getting a little more detailed though. Explaining how the bios works, and the way the init file starts and shuts down the system cleanly. I knew a little about bios, and now I know a little more. I can already tell the course is going to be very helpful in learning a lot of the finer details about using the O.S. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On a final note I thought it was really cool how the course is laid out and explained. They break the course tutorials into three categories showing you how it would work on a Debian system using Ubuntu, a Fedora system using CentOS, and a SUSE system using the openSUSE. I thought that was really cool. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If you want to find out more about the course or sign up yourself you can <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx-lfs101x-introduction-1621#.VAFJuKbiOCg" target="_blank">click here. </a>The course is free to audit, and I'm really happy I signed up. If you're new to Linux or someone who just wants to know a little more than how to point and click in an Xwindows environment I highly recommend this course. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span>The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-66168593102636098822014-08-27T17:28:00.001-07:002014-08-29T20:22:39.503-07:00Just Started the Linux Course at EDxI forgot all about this. I wanted to really improve my Linux skills and I found this free course. You can either get certified for a fee or audit the class for free. I'm cheap and of limited financial means so I opted to audit the course.<br />
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I forgot all about it, and just remembered the course started at the beginning of this month. It's a learn at your own pace course, and the courses are all laid out for you. Good news seeing I'm a full month behind the course start date. <br />
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Anyway, consider this a monthly update. As I learn I'll post some updates here. A friend of mine is taking the course and said it starts out real simple and covers the basics and then gets more and more involved. I'm so excited. I just want to get my Linux skills to surpass my Windows skills.<br />
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Here's a screen shot of the course and if your interested in signing up, I think sign ups are still available <a href="https://www.edx.org/school/linuxfoundationx" target="_blank">Click here. </a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Screen shot of the edX Introduction to Linux course !!! Triple exclamation marks because I'm super excited !!!</td></tr>
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The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-64468090909645660972014-08-13T18:09:00.000-07:002014-08-13T20:07:41.748-07:00Basic Computer and OS Information Using unameNeed a little information on the computer OS your using? <b>uname</b> is the perfect command for that. Lets say your installing some software on a friends computer that you know nothing about, or maybe your not sure if you need the 64 or 32 bit version of a program. The uname command can save the day. <br />
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By typing <b>man uname</b> you can read all about the options that can be used with this command. For the sake of simplicity and keeping this blog post short we're going to use the <b>-a</b> option. This is the <b>all option</b> and will give you just about all the information you would get from using the separate options. For instance, <b>uname -p</b> tells you your using a x86_64 bit processor. Now you know you can install that 64bit version of that software you wanted to install. <br />
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Here's the output I get from <b>uname -a</b><br />
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<b>Linux localhost.localdomain 3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 16 21:57:53 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux</b><br />
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This tells me that I'm running <b>Linux</b>, the name of the network node is <b>localhost.localdomain</b> very helpful when doing networking, I'm using <b>3.14.8.fc20.x86_64</b> which translates to <b>kernel version 3.14.8 Fedoracore 20 x86_64</b> basically <b>Fedora 20 64bit</b>. I have no clue what <b>#1</b> is ? Maybe one of the readers could leave a comment if you know? <b>SMP</b> is <b>Symmetric multi-processing</b> I'm pretty sure this means I'm running multiple processors, the date the kernel was compiled <b>Mon Jun 16 21:57:53 UTC 2014</b>, the system architecture <b>x86_64</b>, meaning its a 64 bit system in this case, and again <b>x86_64 GNU/Linux</b> operating system. <br />
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Thats a lot of information in a quick keystroke. The command comes in handy when working on unfamiliar systems, or when logged onto a computer remotely. To find out more about uname try either <b>man uname</b> or <b>uname --help</b>. <br />
<br />The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-65403183603245886262014-08-11T21:07:00.000-07:002014-08-11T21:07:08.141-07:00Video : Nixie Pixel Explains the Linux File System.Just playing around on Youtube and came across this video. Nixie Pixel gives a quick tour and explanation of the Linux file system. Very informative, and explains a lot in under 6 minutes.<br />
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Did a quick google search and discovered that hitting <b>F11</b> will get you out of full screen mode in Firefox. NOW DON'T I FEEL STUPID. However, I was happy to discover that I wasn't the only one. <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/959183">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/959183</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doing this will get you out of full screen mode. Took me about 5 minutes of hiting keys, and a google search to discover what I was doing wrong. n00b moment !</td></tr>
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<br />The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-39546781298584570182014-08-06T12:22:00.001-07:002014-08-06T12:25:13.422-07:00August<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Playing around in Gimp and designed this for the month of August. I've used Photoshop, and other programs for photography, and I have to say that the more I use Gimp the more I like it. It's my favorite program for photo editing. The program is available on Windows as well, and if you haven't used it, I strongly suggest checking this program out ! The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-85833171343001066642014-07-16T19:11:00.000-07:002014-07-16T23:52:48.370-07:00wget A Super Duper Image Scooper !<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love downloading images on the internet! Cars, pin up girls, scenery and of course I've downloaded my fair share of stupid human tricks and fail pix. <br />
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Occasionally you come across a page of content and you just don't feel like clicking on each image or video individually. The other day I came across a site of hot rods with over a thousand images. That's a lot of clicks ! Who has time for that. Here's what you do.<br />
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You may have used wget to download stuff from the internet. A simple file grab with wget would look like this :<br />
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<b>wget http://www.websiteName.com/filename.mp3</b><br />
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If you've never used wget before to download a file, search the internet for a file to download, open up a terminal, type <b>wget</b> and paste the download link after it like in the example above. <br />
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I don't know why but for some reason when I download something from the command line using wget it seems to download so much faster than downloading it in Firefox or using a browser. So I often cut and paste download links from the internet and download with wget from the command line. Ahright, I digress ! Assuming you understand the very basics of wget, here's how we would use it to grab images from a webpage.<br />
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<u><i>Note: Use man wget to learn more about this command. This is the very basics and just something I've been experimenting with. </i></u><br />
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<b>wget -r --level=2 -v -A jpeg,jpg --wait=2 http://www.targetDomain.com/webpage.htm </b><br />
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The above is all one line of code. So what do we have here and why does it work?<br />
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<b>wget</b> (command line utility used to download files)<br />
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<b>-r</b> (this is recursive, and will continue scanning directories to find the images or videos)<br />
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<b>--level=2</b> (this will only allow it to scan 2 levels of directories, the higher the number the more directories it will download.)<br />
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(if you wanted to download an entire website of files you could omit the <b>--level=2</b> NOT RECOMMENDED, but you could if you want)<br />
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<b>-v </b> (this is verbose, and will show you whats happening as it downloads, again this is optional)<br />
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<b>-A jpeg,jpg</b> (this creates the accept list in this example jpeg, jpg,. You could just as easily change jpg to gif, flv, mp3, mp4 etc, etc, or change it up a bit and download jpg, and mp4. That would download images and video. You can add as many file types as you want here separated by comma.You get the point ! )<br />
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<b>--wait=2</b> (this is really important, this gives you a 2 second wait before each downloaded file. This command will download files so fast, that you really want to add this to help decrease server load. If you were to download an entire site, leaving out <b>--level</b> you should probably increase this number to around 5 to 10 seconds. You don't want to DDoS the server.<br />
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<b>http://www.targetDomain.com/webpage.htm</b> (the web page or website you want to download. Again I would refrain from downloading entire websites, as this can really strain the server your downloading from.)<br />
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So there you have it. This is the very basics, and you could really get more detailed in creating a Super Duper Image and Video Scooper command. As always to learn all the command options type <u><b>man wget</b></u> to learn more about this powerful tool/command ! Once you create a really great command , create a script for it and then you could just run the script and add the web address for instant downloading fun.<br />
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Here's a link to the<a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/wget-1.8.1/html_mono/wget.html#SEC7" target="_blank"> ftp: man page on wget</a>. <br />
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<br />The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900479191467682431.post-60644583856236158922014-07-09T11:35:00.000-07:002014-07-09T11:35:04.565-07:0015 Month Update Linux Full TimeIt's been about 15 - 16 months since I switched over to Fedora from Windows 7. I have to say, the longer I use Fedora full time the happier I am with my decision to drop Windows all together. The more I dive into using Linux the more useful stuff I discover. Much of this I will start sharing on the blog. <br /><br />After using Microsoft operating systems for a little over 20 years, I had a real comfort factor using the product. If anything broke, I knew what the problem was and how to fix it immediately. It was an almost Zen like computing experience, and things rarely went wrong. If it wasn't for the fact that I really hated Windows 8, and the over priced software updates that came with it, I may never have switched. <br /><br />This confident user experience is a feeling I miss using Fedora. It's not for any bad quality in the Fedora product itself, but a simple lack of understanding on my part. When something goes wrong, I have to really research and read, and learn in order to fix the problem. Just like I had to 20 years ago when I started using Windows 3.11. <br /><br />Just this week I realized that familiar safe feeling is coming back with Fedora now. I may not know how to fix everything but if something is off I can usually figure out whats wrong, and what needs to be done to fix it. <br />I occasionally make a n00b mistake, like the other day when I deleted yum instead of a different program using RPM. Ya, I was using RPM to remove part of a package without removing all the dependencies and thinking yum for some reason and with a quick <b>$ rpm -e --nodeps yum</b> <i>return</i>, yum was gone. Dope !!! Yet, even after doing something so ridiculously idiotic, it only took about 15 minutes to fix ! Something that probably would of taken all day 15 months ago :) I have to say, it was a bit of confidence builder. <br /><br /><a href="http://notes-on-using-linux.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-linux-mystery-repair.html" target="_blank">The mystery repair is always nice as well</a>. Although it sucks not really understanding how you fixed something, and what you did to actually fix the problem. The fact that you got it to work, and knew what you had to do to make it work, is always gratifying. When this happens it's just a matter of time before you understand the "why" and "how" of it all ! <br /><br />I look back on learning Windows 20 years ago and remember how amazed I was with the computer. I read everything I could get my hands on, and learned the system inside and out. I could tell you what files did what, and why Windows used that file. I want to get this feeling with Fedora and Linux in general. Then I thought about it and realized 15 months into this and I've got a pretty good handle on this thing. Everyday I learn a little more now, and the more I learn the easier it is to understand. In a couple more years I'm sure I'll have that zen like feeling using Fedora or any brand of GNU Linux I choose. In the mean time I have a ton of great open source software to use, and a million ways to tweak my system for maximum work-flow. <br /><br />On a final note, that is one of the things I'm getting really comfortable with now. I love the way a system can be tweaked a dozen different ways depending on what you're doing. Things like multiple desktops, and setting up the alt tab Windows switching are all huge time savers. The more I learn about KDE and the Linux command line, the more I incorporate the functions into my daily work-flow, and the more time I save. This in itself is worth the price of admission and will probably be the reason I never switch to a different operating system again. Only time will tell. <br /><br /><br />The Blues Guitar Blog and Resources.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01339091983362151583noreply@blogger.com0