If you want to set the date from the Linux command line, you can use the date command: sudo date nnddhhmmyy where nn is the monthdd is the dayhh is the hourmm is the minuteyy is the year For example, date 080717292009 would set the date to August the 7th, 17:29, 2009.
If you want to find out what files are older than – let’s say – ten years and still residing on your hard drive, do a cd /find . -mtime +3650 This will search for such files on all your Linux partition and display them in verbose mode at the end of the search. In… Read More »
You can do this by installing cpulimit. You can limit a certain running application either by name or by process ID: cpulimit -e firefox -l 30 This won’t let Firefox go beyond a 30% CPU usage limit. If you’d rather go by process, you can do it like this: cpulimit -p 3493 -l 40 This… Read More »
Do you still have an Ubuntu 7.10 laying around somewhere on a harddrive? You don’t want’to wipe it off and install a fresh Jaunty? or maybe you don’t have a CD-ROM drive and want to upgrade step by step, from version to version.Since 7.10 is obsolete, the old repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list won’t work. Replace each… Read More »