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Installing HP LaserJet 1020 Printer for OpenSuSE

July 20, 2009 – 8:41 pm

Printers such as the HP LaserJet 1020 (1000, 1005, 1018, 1022 inclusive) are usually detected by the various Linux distribution.  However, there seem to have little success in ensuring that the printer drivers installed works.

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How to start services automatically at boot?

June 29, 2009 – 7:56 pm

In the traditional sense, when we want to include a new service at boot time, we looked into the /etc/init.d/ directory and figure out where to put it.  (I tend to look and figure it out as it changes over the years).

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How to mount NFS Filesystems at Boot Time

April 22, 2009 – 5:42 am

Network File System (NFS) is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984. With NFS, clients can mount filesystems across the network that are being offered by NFS servers and can work with them as if they were filesystems mounted from local disks. NFS is a simple and widely used method [...]

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Using redirections: 2>&1 (Part 2 of 2)

April 19, 2009 – 10:21 pm

If you go through enough shell scripts, you will notice the frequent use of 2>&1.  What does it mean and how it works?
We have briefly introduced standard in (stdin) and standard out (stdout).  In the command line interface and also in shell programming, these are represented as follows:

0 Standard In (STDIN)
1 Standard Out (STDOUT) [...]

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Using redirections; <, >, >> (Part 1 of 2)

April 19, 2009 – 9:51 pm

Redirections can be sometimes confusing to learn and utilize effectively.  We will try to explain it in the simplest possible way that we think is effective.  Please feel free to suggests a better approach to explaining it.
Firstly, the 3 basic redirections.

< ; this less than symbol is to instruct the shell to read from a [...]

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