A Random Walk Through Idea Space: linuxPosts tagged with linuxhttp://www.thattommyhall.com2007-11-09T23:03:25+00:00thattommyhallBittorrent In Linuxhttp://www.thattommyhall.com/2007/11/09/bittorrent-in-linux/2007-11-09T23:03:25+00:002016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00thattommyhallAzureus is crap in Linux.
That is to say neither the Ubuntu package or the download from the webpage worked for me straight away.
Deluge on the other hand is working a treat though. It’s written for Gnome in C++ and Python so I may be able to get myForcing VGA output over Mini DisplayPort in Linuxhttp://www.thattommyhall.com/2016/02/22/forcing-vga-output-in-linux/2016-02-22T18:23:00+00:002016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00thattommyhallFor a long time adding multiple monitors to my laptop has
JustWorked™ and have been a bit complacent about assuming that
plugging into a random projector would be fine, but recently a VGA
projector attached to the mini-display port was not detected (IMeasuring Disk Usage In Linux (%iowait vs IOPS)http://www.thattommyhall.com/2011/02/18/iops-linux-iostat/2011-02-18T15:43:20+00:002016-12-05T00:25:59+00:00thattommyhallThis occurred to me when looking at our Hadoop servers today, lots of
our devs use IOWait as an indicator of IO performance but there are
better measures. IOWait is a CPU metric, measuring the percent of time
the CPU is idle, but waiting for an I/O toFont Goodnesshttp://www.thattommyhall.com/2007/11/15/font-goodness/2007-11-15T17:16:02+00:002016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00thattommyhallWhile I am not all that particular about most things, poor fonts annoy me; particularly if most of the desktop is OK. The Linux (strictly speaking XFree86) font display was always either ugly or hard to get working. Ubuntu has sorted this out in the mainSorry, command-not-found has crashed! http://www.thattommyhall.com/2012/12/12/sorry-command-not-found-has-crashed/2012-12-12T12:22:33+00:002016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00thattommyhallWhenever typed a command that didn’t exist on some of our servers I got the following:
$ poop
Sorry, command-not-found has crashed! Please file a bug report at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/command-not-found/+filebug
Please include the following informationUbuntu is great. Ubuntu is Debian? http://www.thattommyhall.com/2008/02/19/ubuntu-is-great-ubuntu-is-debian/2008-02-19T23:07:24+00:002016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00thattommyhallI have run Linux systems for about a decade, but not always as my main OS though. Whereas I used to enjoy the learning curve linux forced on you, at some point it was both more interesting and easier to use than windows. The selection of packages in Ubuntu