If you ever need to check disk space on a Linux system its easy, use the df function: user@ubuntu:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 20G 4.3G 15G 23% / none 182M 252K 182M 1% /dev none 186M 252K 186M 1% /dev/shm none 186M 196K 186M 1% /var/run none 186M 0 […]
I have an old 2nd-gen MacBook with a core 2 duo processor and ram maxed at 4 gb (although, due to the bus in this, only 3.3 are used). Running Snow Leopard. It had a 320 gb 5400 rpm drive so I thought I squeeze some life out of it before I buy a new […]
Several times over my career I’ve been in places with legacy management styles that plain do not understand software development at all. And I am always told this by those businesses: “Software development is just a skill.” Its always by people who have never been a developer in their lives at all. They almost always […]
Usually out of habit I just do an ls -la command (or dir by accident 🙂 ): user@ubuntu:/etc$ ls -la total 1152 drwxr-xr-x 133 root root 12288 2011-04-03 22:02 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2010-06-21 12:18 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-06-21 07:20 acpi -rw-r–r– 1 root root 2981 2010-06-21 06:22 adduser.conf -rw-r–r– […]