An aging Dell Vostro 1000 ended up on my desk the other day. The owner said it had died, when he turned it on some LEDs lit up, but there…
As part of a backup script I have some VirtualBox machines shutdown gracefully using the VBoxManage command: This command emulates pressing (not holding) the power button on a modern computer….
Occasionally I find myself wanting to removing leading and/or trailing occurrences of a character or string from a larger string in bash. A couple common uses are removing quotes, or…
Is your Ubuntu MOTD warning you of a zombie process? What’s the scoop with that last line “There is 1 zombie process“, is my operating system getting caught up in…