Clementine Player : A very good audio player

Clementine Player : A very good audio player

Today I want to show you one of my essential programs when coding or surfing the net. Clementine is one of the best audio players, hyper-complete, highly configurable, powerful but easy to use, Clementine Player is simply the ideal for me. Multiplatform, open source and free, it’s a real pearl to try without hesitation. Clementine […]

DoudouLinux 2.0 is out !

DoudouLinux 2.0 is out !

I’ve received an announcement from Jean-Michel Philippe and I gladly publish it: The whole team is very glad to inform you that DoudouLinux 2.0 Hyperborea is now officially out . After 2 years of development, this new major version is providing many great new features with fully redesigned advanced activities, new graphics, new applications, a new installer, etc. Available in […]

Effective System Administration

Sometimes it’s useful to do a step back and think at the way you are doing your daily tasks and in general how you approach your work, if you are interested in this topic I suggest also the great book “Time management for system administrator” This was written by Jennifer Davis and first published on http://sysadvent.blogspot.it/ For most […]

Linux Shell: DF and DU report different values

Sometime it happen that the command df and the command du report different results such as: df -h /tmp Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vzfs 16G 12G 4G 75% /tmpdf -h /tmp Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vzfs 16G 12G 4G 75% /tmp While a du command show somethign different such […]

Linux Shell:Timeout

Sometimes it’s useful to write a bash script that do something like “Do this job, if it’s still running after XX second kill it”, how to implement this in a normal bash environment ? Nothing simpler: Use the timeout shell command to achieve this. From its info page: timeout runs the given COMMAND and kills […]