I test software on SLES/SLED machines and it is always a pain trying to prepare images for re-use in other locations. SuSE uses hardware specific IDs for booting and configuring network interfaces by default so if you try to make an image and use it on another machine you are out of luck. Also, making [...]

So I needed to find the number of files in a directory recursively. I found a great way to figure that out on Linux that has helped me a couple times now. I definitely need to remember it…anyway here is is:
find /my/directory -type f |wc -l
If you need to find the number of directories recursively [...]

For the last several months on my Ubuntu machine at work the numpad has not been working. It has been so frustrating. I would turn the numlock on and off and nothing would seem to get it to work.
I thought it was something wrong with the keyboard or possibly after a kernel update one of [...]

Holy cow, this about blew my mind. I was working on a simple little website that had no FTP access so I was just planning on copying all the files down to check out the site and see how things were working. Obviously it is not fun to do that. Well I did have SSH [...]

I had installed Adobe Reader to replace the default eVince document viewer. The problem was that PDFs I opened in Nautilus still opened with eVince. I wanted to know how to fix it so it would always open with Adobe Reader.
In order to do that you need to navigate to the file you want to [...]