Category Archives: Linux

Set static IP address in Ubuntu

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Spechal

You will need to edit your /etc/network/interfaces file sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 Restart networking via sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart Bookmark … Continue reading →

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Installing Node.js and Socket.io on Ubuntu

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Spechal

Issue the following on the command line: cd ~ sudo apt-get install libv8-2.0.3 libv8-dev libv8-dbg libssl-dev curl wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.3.tar.gz tar zxvf node-v0.4.3.tar.gz cd node-v0.4.3 ./configure && make && make install sudo curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh sudo npm install socket.io … Continue reading →

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Linux find string in files

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Spechal

find . | xargs grep ‘string_to_find’ -l Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

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Linux : display file name for found string in files

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Spechal

grep ‘something to find’ -srl /path/to/files -s : suppress error messages -l : suppress normal output and show the file name -r : search recursively into directories Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share … Continue reading →

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phpize not found

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Spechal

This error is typically generated when you don’t have the PHP development libraries installed. Installing the libraries via repository is the easiest and quickest fix. For Fedora/Red Hat: yum install php5-dev For Ubuntu/Debian: apt-get install php5-dev Bookmark on Delicious Digg … Continue reading →

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Linux: Cleaning up your login tracks

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Spechal

So you’ve logged into a Linux machine but you don’t want anyone to know you were there. Why? Who cares. Here are a couple of things to clean up your tracks. Once you log in, you’ll notice that message that … Continue reading →

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