3TB vs 2TB

When you are looking to get your next harddrive, you might be in a possition where you have a decision in front of you on whether to purchase a 3TB harddrive or a 2TB harddrive. Often this may look attractive to you, the current prices of a 3TB harddrive are so low that it looks a whole lot more value for a 3TB harddrive than a 2TB harddrive. I had rececently purchased a 3TB harddrive due to the value for money that it presented. The added extra 1TB and the lack of available sata ports on my motherboard fealt like a no-brainer. However, soon after...

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Largest Folder in Linux

There are times when you are suddenly surprised when you start running out of diskspace. When this occurs, sometimes you might know what is taking up all your precious space, and sometimes you don't. If you don't really have an understanding what is taking up all your space, then what you really want to do is get a view, starting from the root and showing which folders are taking up the space.  There's a great little program that will do just that. To install it, whip out a terminal window and type in : sudo apt-get install ncdu  and...

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Getting the size of a folder

Getting the size of a folder is as simple as executing du -hs /myPath/ The h is to make the output legible, that is it will display a 100M as 100M and not in bytes. The s is to make the output in a summarised format, if this is not included you'll get a listing of all the files and their size...

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Checking freespace from a terminal

If you ever need to check your disk's usage, free space etc... you can execute a terminal command df. This gives you information in a very raw format. Often this is adequate to check the capacity and what's left by using the % information. However, a better way to look a disk capacity and free space is using discuss. Discuss isn't normally included in your standard build of Ubuntu, so in order to install it fire up the following command: sudo apt-get install discuss Once you have done that type in discuss in a terminal window and voi...

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Using Screen in Ubuntu

This morning I was advised that in order to execute extensive shell scripts, and especially via telnet, I should look into using screen. When I first tried the command screen in Ubuntu I found that it didn't work, I was notified by bash that I should sudo apt-get install screen. So, after I installed it as bash suggested, I re-executed the command screen and a GNU lic agreement was displayed. Then I was placed back on to a command prompt, almost exactly the same command prompt as what I was on before... so what next ? I decided to do a bit of...

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Partitioning and Formatting a 3TB Harddrive as NTFS within Ubuntu

I bought a new harddrive since the old one was running out of space, its a Western Digital 3TB Green Harddrive. All my previous harddrives were 2TB or less, this is the first time I've tried a 2TB and I had to do a bit of research to make sure that the harddrive would work under linux and it can support a 3TB harddrive. The first and important step is the consideration of partition and file system. Since this is a large harddrive, and since I have...

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New Layout - Experiment

I'm completely new to the world of Blogger, and I thought that it was about time to ditch the standard template for something that is a little more appealing. I first thought that I could create my own template, but for the time being I'm trialling out some pre-made templates (why re-create the wheel if you don't have to, right?). So in the mean time you will see changes on the site, sometimes it might work and sometimes it wont. But for most part I hope it works....

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Movie-Renamer Installation

I've been hunting around for a method to get my movies working with XBMC. On Windows I was using a program called Movie Companion, and it was a good little program that did what I wanted it do. Specfically: It downloaded the movie information  Downloaded Posters Downloaded Fan Art Created the required .nfo files for XBMC What it didn't do was create update movie filenames etc... but I could live with that.  Since moving across to...

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Installing Java 7 on Ubuntu

I found myself wanting to run a Java applet on Ubuntu, within Windows this was pre-installed and I didn't have to worry about anything. However, since my install of Java did not exist I had to hunt around on how to install Java, the following steps are what I used: 1. Add a PPA to your repository list sudo apt-get-repository ppa:webupd8team/java 2. Check that your system is updated sudo apt-get update 3. Execute the installation sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer When the installation starts you will be prompted, within...

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Cloud Storage for the Consumers

Much of yesterday was used up trying to look for a set of files, due to a recent hard drive malfunction I no longer know what I have and what has been lost. After searching through my stack of hard drives  low and behold the files were located in the second last hard drive  That was lucky because the last hard drive was a IDE harddrive, and I don't think I have a suitable enclosure for it.  But, this event got me thinking about the types of medium that is suitable for storage. One of the consequences...

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RawTherapee

Well as part of my search to get myself on to linux (Ubuntu 12.04), a lot of my work has been involved in replacing applications that I generally use in Windows with a Linux equivalent. I've recently found myself having to process on batch Raw files (NEF) files, and I've come across this really great application that helps you to process RAW files and convert them to JPEG (jpg) - the application's name is called RawTherapee. To get it on ubuntu simply execute the following command in a terminal : sudo apt-get install rawtherapee Once...

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Seeing RAW files within Nautils

One of the most frustrating things that I have found whilst working with linux as the core operating system, well ubuntu/gnome etc... is that my NEF files are not displayed as a thumbnail. While opening the NEF file is easy enough, I wanted a way to quickly search/browse my images and view the contents. After a little digging up, I found that this can be easily accomplished by following these steps. Install ufraw from the repos using aptget: sudo apt-get install ufraw  Next, you will need to create a file called raw.thumbnailer in /usr/share/thumbnailers....

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JqueryUI 1.9.0

Whoa JqueryUI 1.9.0 is out... What a great effort by the team to release the JqueryUI 1.9.0, unfortunately this release has fealt like it has taken a long time to be released.  Some of the key changes are:  Spinner Widget : While there has been a number of Spinner Widgets that have been available for a while with Jquery via separate plugins, this is coming directly from the jquery team. This is one control/widget that I have had my eyes on for a while, mainly because of the standard functionality that it provides. The demos...

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Ubuntu 12.10

Coming out shortly is Ubuntu 12.10, currently it is available to be downloaded using the http://releases.ubuntu.com as Beta 2.  I've been trialling ubuntu 12.10 for the past couple of weeks using the live method, and my desktop is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.  Some of the improvements or changes in 12.10 are:  Linux Kernel is 3.5.4  Python 3.2, it doesn't ship with v2 but this can be easily installed A CD Image is no longer supported, those who want to try out Ubuntu 12.10 will need to either use a USB or a DVD Update Manager...

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webplatform.org

A new site/community has opened up to promote open standards and a place for web developers. Essentially it is a resource site where web developers can obtain information on best practises for HTML5, CSS, Javascript, Accessability, and more. This is a positive move from a number of organisations to bring together their knowledge and also to assist in promoting the internet and web development overall. Whilst the site and the community looks like it is still in it's infancy, it contains a number of articles as well as tutorials.  Looking...

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Whoa.. back on here again...

Ok, so the last time I took a long break I ended up going for a long time. Well I've had to shutdown the other site and have decided to come back here. Why, two reasons : Decided to move to Ubuntu for my desktop/server Accidentally deleted the partition with the blog database So I lasted for about 1 year and a bit on blogEngine with Asp.NET running on IIS. However, the one thing that I wanted to get up and running (i.e image gallery) didn't end up happening. So I'm still in the lookout for an image gallery that I can integrate into...

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