Category Archives: Command line

command line fun – logs and logging

Posted on January 28, 2016 by DocDock

Before writing this blog entry, I never considered the actual similarities between the Linux shell and the dos shell. I shouldn’t have been too surprised as the similarities have less to do with the operating systems than with the general … Continue reading →

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can’t shutdown my §$%&/#+ Windows PC

Posted on January 27, 2016 by DocDock

Most people would likely say that their work computer isn’t fast enough, but then which computer is.  I am not actually unsatisfied, my laptop is good enough for compiling, using secure shell, mail and word processing. The company actually does … Continue reading →

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booting Linux from a USB stick

Posted on January 20, 2016 by DocDock

Most of the Linux distributions are downloadable as a ISO image which can be burned to a CD or DVD.  This is pretty convenient, download the distribution and create your own disks. In the beginning floppy disks were used by … Continue reading →

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command line fun – the basics

Posted on November 6, 2015 by DocDock

I was meeting with a younger friend to fix his virus laden laptop, it turned out to be quite a mess so we decided it would be more efficient to restore it from the recovery partition. I was a bit … Continue reading →

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