Or perhaps i should call this “Do you remember i was upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 ?”. Well something is gone bad and when i rebooted to start my new Xubuntu 11.04 i got: error: cannot read the Linux header. error: you need to load the kernel first. Failed to boot both default and fallback entries. […]
Release Day for many Linux distributions
Today it’s the day, Ubuntu 11.04 has been officially released and they server are now under “attack” by all the Ubuntu users that are trying to download the new release or update a former version, for me it took around 3 hours to finish the download of the 1400 packages needed to upgrade from Xubuntu […]
Check your disk usage with df and du
As system administrator , but also as common user on my PC, one of the more common problem is when a file system got filled up at up at 100% of its size. So, in this article we’ll see 2 commands that can help us in keeping under control or check the space used in […]
Tesseract-ocr: convert scanned images into editable documents on Linux
Tesseract-ocr: how to convert scanned documents into editable text on Ubuntu or Debian, Original article by Gabriele published on Gmstyle (italian blog) I learned from the requests come via email, that some of my readers use Ubuntu (or Linux in general) to work and deal with graphics and publishing, who for his profession and who […]
10 Easter Eggs in Linux
Happy easter to all, what’s better than celebrate this holiday taking a look at what have hidden the programmers in our software ? A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke or feature in a work such as a computer program, web page, video game, movie, book or crossword. The term was coined—according […]