Author Archives: usrmisc

About usrmisc

I'm a software guy and intend to write down my own miscellaneous learnings here instead of on some papers, which I don't find again. Let's see how that goes. I work mainly with Linux.

Another nice Linux blog

Posted on May 30, 2010 by usrmisc

http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/ has nice tricks for technical user. Unfortunately a bit silent recently, but nice posts in the past, which are still interesting to read.

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udisks tells everything about disks

Posted on May 30, 2010 by usrmisc

If you wonder any kind of technical detail of you disk drives (magnetical, optical or also USB mass storage) in Linux udisk is your friend. The command udisks –dump tells a lot. Technically udisks is not Linux (as in kernel), … Continue reading →

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Watching how upstart works

Posted on May 15, 2010 by usrmisc

Intructions how to turn upstart’s logging. For debugging or just for the curious user who likes to understand how things work. Continue reading →

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